Winter storm hammers East Coast with heavy rain, strong winds

A stop sign replaces failed stoplights at an intersection in East Providence, R.I. on Monday morning, Dec. 18, 2023.

Workers clear debris from a tree that fell on a car on Stanley Ave. in Mamaroneck, N.Y. Dec. 18, 2023 after heavy rains and winds caused flooding and power outages throughout the area. The intense storm battered much of the East Coast.

A residence in Marshfield, MAss. was heavily damaged by a large pine tree that fell during a storm Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. The owners escaped injury.

A portion of Route 121 is closed due to flooding just south of Rt. 116 in North Salem, N.Y. on Dec. 18, 2023.

A large pine tree sits on a roof of a home on Spruce Drive in Dover due to high winds Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.

High winds and driving rain brought down trees on the South Shore on Monday morning, including this one in Marshfield, Mass. Closed roads forced drivers to take detours.

Members of the Jamaica, Vt., Fire Department look at the damage to a failed culvert for the North Branch Ball Mountain Brook on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, after a heavy storm dropped a couple of inches of rain. The culvert was originally replaced after the storms in July but failed again on Monday.

A truck backs up after a tree fell across Lake Street in North Salem, N.Y. during heavy rain and wind Dec. 18, 2023.

First responders stand in the floodwaters of the Perkiomen Creek at Graterford Road in Collegeville, Pa., Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.

A car and a fire truck are submerged in flood water on Lamont Street after a large rainstorm on Dec. 18, 2023 in Elmsford, New York.

Joshua Leedy-Andreozzi of Brattleboro, Vt., walks through some of the floodwaters on Edgewood Drive at Tri-Park Co-Op Housing in Brattleboro on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Residents were asked to voluntarily leave after the Whetstone Brook flooded from the heavy rain.

High winds drive surf into a retaining wall in front of a residence in Mattapoisett, Mass. on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023 as a storm makes its away across the region.

A worker clears debris from a storm drain in Collingdale, Pa., Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.

Cars are left stranded in flood waters on River St in Paterson, NJ on Monday Dec. 18, 2023.

Cars drive through heavy rain and wind as they approach Tarrytown, N.Y. from the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge Monday morning, Dec. 18, 2023. The intense storm battered much of the East Coast, causing flash flooding and power outages.

A pedestrian walks through heavy rain and wind on route 9 in Tarrytown, N.Y. Monday morning, Dec. 18, 2023. The intense storm battered much of the East Coast, causing flash flooding and power outages.

A car drives on a flooded street in Philadelphia early Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.

Carolina Panthers fans watch in the rain in the first quarter at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on Dec. 17, 2023.

Flooding on Water Street in downtown Wilmington, N.C., Dec. 17, 2023.

A car drives through a flooded street near the Battery, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, in Charleston, S.C.

The Miami (Ohio) band plays as rain pours down throughout the first half of the Cure Bowl NCAA college football game against Appalachian State, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, in Orlando, Fla.

Sybil and Stella, a pair of bearded collies, go for a morning walk in high winds near the intersection of Worth Ave. and S. Ocean Blvd. Saturday morning Dec. 16, 2023.

South Ocean Blvd. flooded in Palm Beach, Fla. as waves crashed over the seawall Saturday afternoon Dec. 16, 2023.

High winds continue to pass through the area near the Clock Tower in Palm Beach Dec. 16, 2023.

The Juno Beach Pier is slammed by big waves in Juno Beach, Fla. on Dec. 15, 2023.