Andrew Cuomo back into the spotlight in his final days before leaving office. New York’s storm response has brought Gov. Henri’s downgrade from a hurricane to a tropical storm spared New England from what would have been its first direct hurricane hit in 30 years. The Associated Press reports some areas have also run out of gasoline as drivers prepared for the storm, which has prompted the shutdown of some commuter rail services in the region and canceled a reported more than 1,000 flights, according to FlightAware data cited by ABC News. Thousands of residents along the Northeast coast were directed to evacuate in advance of Henri making landfall, including on New York’s Fire Island and along the Connecticut coastline, and governors in Connecticut and Rhode Island have urged residents to shelter in place as the storm approaches. Saturday, marking the highest hourly rainfall total in the city’s history, and areas of New Jersey became so flooded Sunday that photographs show cars being nearly submerged underwater. The New York City park recorded nearly two inches of rain between 10 p.m. Henri has already brought considerable flooding to areas including parts of New Jersey and New York City as it traveled into the region Saturday night into Sunday, and caused the mid-show cancellation of the star-studded “Homecoming Concert” in Central Park. “Don't sleep on this storm just because it was downgraded to a the expected impacts remain the same!” the National Weather Service in Boston tweeted Sunday morning. Marshall Shepherd, director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia, told the Associated Press Sunday the storm stalling over the New York and New Jersey region and “sitting there and dumping rain.will be a significant hazard” for the region if the storm continues to remain slow moving or stationary. Henri is now moving northwest and the NHC projects it could “possibly stall” on the border between Connecticut and New York Sunday night before moving east across northern Connecticut and southern Massachusetts on Monday. Sunday, according to data compiled by, along with 32,279 in Connecticut and 10,657 in Massachusetts. That’s approximately how many customers in Rhode Island are suffering power outages as of 3 p.m.
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