Images: East Coast hammered with blizzard conditions and flooding
A vicious winter storm hit the East Coast, bringing hurricane force wind gusts and coastal flooding to Massachusetts. The National Weather Service says it received reports of a wind gust of 76 mph on Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Thursday and a gust of 75 mph in Wellfleet, on Cape Cod. Winds of 74 mph or higher are considered hurricane force.
A man pushes his way through a winter snowstorm in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.
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Friends visiting from New York walk to the bus station during a winter snowstorm in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
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Large chunks of sea ice strewn Ferry Street in front of a flooded house as a utilities truck passes through a nearby intersection Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, in Marshfield, Mass. The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for Thursday that extends from eastern Long Island north to coastal New Hampshire and Maine. Most of the rest of southern New England is under a winter storm watch.
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A Boston firefighter wades through flood waters from Boston Harbor on Long Wharf in Boston, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.
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A person walks to the Maverick Station subway stop in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. At least one station on the line was closed due to flooding. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.
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Ajamu Gumbs of New York makes his way to a bus station during a snowstorm in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
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A plow tuck rolls by as Orlando Igmat, of New Milford, N.J., waits for a tow truck to pull his vehicle off a snowbank after skidding off the Garden State Parkway on his way to work during a snowstorm, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, in Tinton Falls, N.J. The New Jersey Shore, which has been experiencing deep cold weather to start the new year, is under a winter storm advisory.
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Cole Daly of Florida walks along the shore during a winter snowstorm in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
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People walk through a snowstorm as they exit the Oculus at the Fulton Street transit hub beneath the World Trade Center in New York, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.
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Pedestrians make their way across a plaza as strong winds blow the snow horizontally outside the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. The massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.
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A group of men help a motorist after his vehicle was stuck in the snow near Asbury Park boardwalk during a snowstorm, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, in Asbury Park, N.J. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.
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Firefighters extinguish a vehicle fire during a winter snowstorm in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
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A woman fights to drag her shopping cart to her vehicle after exiting the Shaws Supermarket in Dartmouth, Mass., as a snowstorm sweeps across the area, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
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People walk on a small pier as snow covers the sand dunes during a snowstorm that hit the New Jersey Shore, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, in Ocean Grove, N.J. A massive winter storm swept from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possible record-breaking cold.
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Vehicles commute southbound on the Garden State Parkway in whiteout conditions during a snowstorm, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, in Eatontown, N.J. Residents across a huge swath of the U.S. awakened Thursday to the beginnings of a massive winter storm expected to deliver snow, ice and high winds followed by possible record-breaking cold as it moves up the Eastern Seaboard from the Carolinas to Maine.
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A person tries to cross an icy Pleasure House Rd. in Virginia Beach, Va., during the snowstorm Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. Virginia has been socked by a powerful winter blast of snow and cold that's seldom seen along its coast.
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A cyclist gets a lift on Bypass Road during a snowstorm in Williamsburg, Va. Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
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Workers clear the boardwalk during a winter snowstorm in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
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