Strong wind, rain in Northeast knocks out power for 400,000, diverts flights from NY to Mass.

Wind, rain knocks out power to 400K in Northeast

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Strong winds and heavy rain have knocked out power for nearly 400,000 customers in the Northeast, while diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site.

The winds downed trees and power lines throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut on Saturday. The New York City area and southern New Jersey were among the hardest hit with about 265,000 combined customers without power. More than 85,000 are without power in the Philadelphia area.

An official with Massport says Logan International Airport in Boston received nine overseas flights bound for New York because they no longer had the fuel to wait for clearance to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

In New York, ferry service to Staten Island was suspended Saturday night because of heavy winds brought on by the coastal rainstorm.

In Atlantic City, the horizontal arm of a boom crane collapsed at the Revel Casino construction site. Debris went flying and crashed through the driver’s side window of a police cruiser, injuring an officer.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Strong winds and heavy rain have knocked out power for nearly 300,000 customers in the Northeast, while diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site.

The winds downed trees and power lines throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut on Saturday. The New York City area and Southern New Jersey were among the hardest hit with about 265,000 combined customers without power.

An official with Massport says Logan International Airport in Boston received nine overseas flights bound for New York because they no longer had the fuel to wait for clearance to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

In New York, ferry service to Staten Island was suspended Saturday night because of heavy winds brought on by the coastal rainstorm.

In Atlantic City, the horizontal arm of a boom crane collapsed at the Revel Casino construction site. Debris went flying and crashed through the driver’s side window of a police cruiser, injuring an officer.