Tag: Northeast

Northeast Digs Out From Winter Storm, Faces Power Outages

CONCORD, N.H.—Parts of New England and New York were digging out of a nor’easter Wednesday that caused tens of thousands of power outages, numerous school cancellations, and whiteout conditions on the roads. The storm began Monday night and lasted throughout Tuesday, dumping as much as 3 feet of snow and gusty winds. Others got just…


New England, Upstate New York, Bracing for Winter Storm

Parts of the Northeast were bracing for a powerful winter storm that could dump heavy, wet snow, and unleash strong winds, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. The National Weather Service says the storm is expected to begin late Monday and last into Wednesday. The storm could hit parts of New England,…


Snow Pummels Parts of Northeast; Thousands Without Power

BOSTON—Utility crews raced Saturday to restore power to tens of thousands of customers across New England and New York after a powerful storm dumped 2 feet of snow in some places. More than 160,000 customers in New England were in the dark as of the afternoon and another 20,000 were without power in New York…


With Records Poised to Fall, City Folk Flee Heat If They Can

PROMISED LAND, Pa.—It’s not exactly flowing with milk and honey—just ask the area’s struggling black bears—but Promised Land offered respite Sunday for city folks in the Northeast trying to escape a nearly weeklong hot spell that only threatened to intensify. Those with the resources fled to pools, beaches, and higher elevations like Promised Land State…


As Heat Records Fall in Northeast, Some City Dwellers Flee

PROMISED LAND, Pa.—It’s not exactly flowing with milk and honey—just ask the area’s struggling black bears—but Promised Land offered respite Sunday for city folks in the Northeast trying to escape a nearly weeklong hot spell that only threatened to intensify. Those with the resources fled to pools, beaches and higher elevations like Promised Land State…


Brrr! Some Schools Close as Extreme Cold Grips US Northeast

BOSTON—A mass of arctic air swept into the Northeast on Tuesday, bringing bone-chilling sub-zero temperatures and closing schools across the region for the second time in less than a week. Schools in Massachusetts three largest cities—Boston, Worcester, and Springfield—canceled classes, saying they did not want children standing outside for extended periods of time waiting for…


Northeast Locations Absent in America’s Top 10 Commercial Office Markets

New York, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. are among the largest cities in the Northeast, with a plethora of towering office buildings populating their skylines. Ironically though, none of these locations are listed in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Top 10 Commercial Office Markets for the third quarter of 2021. Instead, the South…


At Least 45 Dead After Ida’s Remnants Blindside Northeast

NEW YORK—A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage, and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than 40 people in their homes and cars. In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding…


Death Toll Tops 40 After Ida’s Remnants Blindside Northeast

NEW YORK—A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage, and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than 40 people in their homes and cars. In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding…


At Least 14 Dead After Ida’s Remnants Hit Northeast

NEW YORK—The remnants of Hurricane Ida inundated large swaths of the northeastern U.S. with historic and unanticipated fury Wednesday night, killing at least 14 people in flooding in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as basement apartments suddenly filled with water, rivers, and creeks swelled to record levels and roadways turned into car-swallowing canals. Eight…