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Girls are silhouetted against a salt lake as the sun sets in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
A woman sits in Hyde Park, London as autumn begins, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Displaced Yemeni children from Al-Kadha, west of Taiz, gather at the Al-Akdaf camp in Taiz, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)
Skateboarders Edgar Lopez, left, Edison Bogado, center, and Raul Vysokolan train in the Mbatovi hills near Paraguari, Paraguay, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A girl walks through an alley in the old city of the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Students from the Baghdad Ballet Academy prepare to perform in a production titled "Mermaid" at Al-Sinbad Theater in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Residents gather in a communal area as they wait to fed at the Pequeño Cottolengo Don Orione, a home for people with disabilities that will be visited by Pope Leo XIV in November, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The sun sets behind flowers in a carpet of blooms covering the Atacama Desert after rains near Copiapó, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
People pass by The National Military Monument at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Sea gulls are fed by beachgoers at a seaside resort on Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
People hang out near eggs for sale on a street during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Union of Workers of the Popular Economy volunteers Valeria Espindola, center, and Rosana Barberis rest after serving free meals in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Members of a Palestinian-Bedouin community play soccer on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Taybeh, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, after Israeli settlers walked with their animals past their compound toward a nearby outpost. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A Jewish baby sleeps in a stroller decorated with pictures of rabbis, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Brenda Malloy enjoys a nor'easter storm, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in Gloucester, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
People walk past a street musician playing the cello in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Girls are silhouetted against a salt lake as the sun sets in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
A woman sits in Hyde Park, London as autumn begins, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Displaced Yemeni children from Al-Kadha, west of Taiz, gather at the Al-Akdaf camp in Taiz, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)
Skateboarders Edgar Lopez, left, Edison Bogado, center, and Raul Vysokolan train in the Mbatovi hills near Paraguari, Paraguay, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A girl walks through an alley in the old city of the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Students from the Baghdad Ballet Academy prepare to perform in a production titled "Mermaid" at Al-Sinbad Theater in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Residents gather in a communal area as they wait to fed at the Pequeño Cottolengo Don Orione, a home for people with disabilities that will be visited by Pope Leo XIV in November, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The sun sets behind flowers in a carpet of blooms covering the Atacama Desert after rains near Copiapó, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
People pass by The National Military Monument at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Sea gulls are fed by beachgoers at a seaside resort on Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
People hang out near eggs for sale on a street during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Union of Workers of the Popular Economy volunteers Valeria Espindola, center, and Rosana Barberis rest after serving free meals in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Members of a Palestinian-Bedouin community play soccer on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Taybeh, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, after Israeli settlers walked with their animals past their compound toward a nearby outpost. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A Jewish baby sleeps in a stroller decorated with pictures of rabbis, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Brenda Malloy enjoys a nor'easter storm, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in Gloucester, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
People walk past a street musician playing the cello in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
BOSTON (AP) — A slow-moving, powerful storm crept along the coast of the U.S. Northeast on Saturday, producing high winds that knocked out electricity to thousands while whipping up big waves and heavy rains that created dangerous conditions in some places.
Tens of millions of people were in the path of the nor'easter, which was forecast to affect the mid-Atlantic area and New England throughout the weekend. Around 100,000 customers in the region were without electricity Saturday.
The forecast showed no immediate reprieve. There will be "a lot of high winds, a lot of high tides and heavy rain possibility over the next few days for the northeastern U.S.,” said Bob Oravec, lead forecaster with the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland.
In Long Island, New York, some people kayaked down flooded streets.
In the coastal New Jersey borough of Surf City, Kenny Formica sat at his home watching surveillance cameras showing water rising inside the marina he owns. Water getting inside the building is rare, Formica said. The last time he remembers it happening was during Hurricane Sandy, which he said caused more than $4 million in damage to his business.
Ahead of the storm, Formica said workers secured dock lines, moved loose items and equipment out of harm’s way and parked the marina’s trucks and forklifts at the highest point of the property. By Saturday morning, even those were nearly surrounded by water.
Formica said he woke Saturday to messages from customers reporting missing boats and Jet Skis. One customer sent him a video around 4 a.m. showing his 25-foot (7.6-meter) boat after it had blown off its lift.
“This is like an 8,000-pound boat and, you know, a $150,000 boat — just gone,” Formica said.
In Ocean City, Maryland, heavy surf caused beach erosion, washed out fencing by the dunes and was leading to flooding.
“In all the canals, the water is up really high and coming into people’s backyards,” Jay Boyd said by telephone.
Further south, Ellie Hodge stood on her front stoop in Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday and watched as passing vehicles left wakes. The coastal city has seen isolated flooding all week because of the nor’easter.
“We've seen cars get stuck on the road, going up the sidewalks,” Hodge said. “It's been pretty bad this time around.”
The storm forced a change of plans for many people. Hundreds of flights were canceled at Boston Logan International Airport, as were the vast majority of flights at the popular Massachusetts tourist destinations of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
The Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs — both gearing up for the playoffs during the final weekend of the regular Major League Baseball season — had to shuffle the schedule for their three-game series. They played a double-header Friday in Boston to try to avoid the storm. Then MLB rescheduled their finale on Sunday to occur in Florida, at the home of the Tampa Bay Rays.
Ed Sheeran canceled his high-profile concerts Friday and Saturday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Also canceled: an Ironman triathlon in New York and the three-day Oceans Calling Festival in Ocean City, Maryland, which had been promoted online as “a wave of music.”
Farther south, a highway closure on North Carolina’s Hatteras Island scrambled Jayden Sink and Kimberly Laprad’s Saturday wedding plans. The Virginia couple had made it onto the island before the storm, but most of their roughly 45 guests were stranded on the other side of the closure, the Island Free Press reported. A local campground offered a new venue, cabins and an officiant, and a DJ volunteered to provide music. Organizers invited anyone on the island to come celebrate with the couple Saturday afternoon.
Nor’easters are not unusual as New England moves into fall, but “this might be a little earlier than average for a big storm,” said Oravec, of the National Weather Service.
The storm’s slow movement could worsen beach erosion by subjecting the coast to a prolonged period of strong winds and waves, he said.
State officials along the East Coast urged people to use caution. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said coastal flooding is the biggest threat, but the storm will also bring heavy rains, powerful winds and waves as high as 20 feet (six meters).
“The rain is underway and while it’s only half an inch or so thus far, mark my words: Much more is coming,” the governor said early Saturday.
In Long Island, ferry owner Stephanie Sherman said she had paused operations between Patchogue and the barrier island of Fire Island.
“It’s been a pretty wild storm,” Sherman said. “But nothing that we haven’t experienced in the past. These happen every so often.”
Lieb reported from Jefferson City, Missouri. Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed in Norfolk, Virginia; Kim Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama; and Annika Hammerschlag in Seattle contributed.
Surfers ride waves kicked up by a nor'easter storm, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, in Hampton, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Alberto Montalvo wades through a flooded section of Atlantic Ave. during a nor'easter storm in Long Branch, N.J., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Jose Rosario pulls an extension cord out of his flooded garage to connect to a generator on Catherine St. Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, in Long Branch, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Spectators watch wave break during a nor'easter storm, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, in Hampton, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Ted Friedli kayaks his way through a flooded section of Florence Ave. during a nor'easter in Long Branch, N.J., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026 (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
John Garrisi, left, and Gaige Graf move an outdoor table away from the shorefront during the early stages of a nor'easter storm, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in Gloucester, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A surfer rides a wave during a nor'easter storm, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in Gloucester, Mass.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Chuck and Teresa Palmieri move lawn furniture to a safe location at a relative's seaside property as the Atlantic Ocean kicks up surf during the early stages of a nor'easter storm, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in Gloucester, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Brenda Malloy enjoys a nor'easter storm, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in Gloucester, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Surf breaks along the rocky coastline, with the twin lighthouses of Thatcher Island visible in the distance, during the early stages of a nor’easter Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, in Gloucester, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
