Although airports remained open, more than 1,000 flights in, out or within the United States had been cancelled on Sunday as the storm made landfall near Rhode Island.
Nearly 100,000 power outages were being reported for customers up the northern East Coast as of 12:30 p.m. on Sunday. The Public Service Enterprise Group, a utilities company, reported more than 1,700 of their Long Island customers had been affected by power outages.
In New Jersey, at least 86 people had been rescued from flooded vehicles related to the tropical storm as of Sunday afternoon, according to the Newark Department of Public Safety. “This house has been through so many hurricanes and so many things have happened,” Cherie Saunders, 68, toldfrom the National Hurricane Center said that a dangerous storm surge from Henri was expected in Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island and parts of southeastern Massachusetts. The advisory warned of flash flooding in those regions as well.Ahead of the storm's landfall, Paul Muniz, 61, secured his boat.
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