wind damage and power outages, we ll start to notice those as early as tomorrow morning. and tomorrow afternoon, flooding rains, start to push inland. also start to notice major wind damage, more power outages and then we get to the peak of the storm. that s monday night. wind gusts, 80 miles per hour. sustained winds 40 to 60 miles per hour. wind and rain, combines with the soft ground and the leaves on the trees, and that s why so many trees will come down. combine that with high tide at 6:00 to 9:00, and coastal flooding is a huge concern. we go into tuesday, the storm is not going anywhere too quickly. it sits over pennsylvania, the torrential rains, flooding rains continue for unland towns, rivers start to overflow their banks, and the tide cycles come and go, and the winds will be sustained up to around 30 to 40 miles per hour with highest gusts as well a lot of stress on
erosion. new bedford, massachusetts, one of the great fishing communities on the east coast, a protected harbor but not protected from white caps. a lot of surface winds. and as these tide cycles come and go, this storm takes up an entire tide cycle while it lingers. and we have flooding and wind damage going on in new england. the part of this storm will be tougher to cover, places like vermont with flooding. ron blum is in narrogansett, rhode island. this quadrant of the storm, everything north of the new york suburbs on up, this is tougher for us to get our arms around. but there will be beach erosion, power outages, trees down, what have you. the story on the rhode island coast is a good one. early this morning there was fury coming out of this. ocean road was really ocean bottom. there s a lot of timbers, broken