US’s north east braces for wind-driven storm from Maine to North Carolina
Boston — Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the north-eastern US braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatens to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina. Along Boston’s Long Wharf, near the Faneuil Hall tourist area, large piles of sandbags were in place around a subway station and a Marriott hotel, a spot that flooded with icy seawater during an early January storm. Heavy rains, monthly extreme high tides and a wind-driven storm surge could combine to cause several feet of water to flow onto streets in coastal parts of Boston and up and down the shoreline, government and private weather forecasters warned. High winds of up to 120km/h could also bring extensive power outages. "People need to take this very seriously," Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker told a press conference on Thursday, telling people to prepare for a repeat of the flooding that affected much of state’s east coast during ...
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