The East Coast nor’easter is leaving. One man died in Brooklyn. Peak outages hit about 200,000

An 81 mph September gust is a winter number on a fall calendar. The wreck on the sand shows how much beach left.
  • The storm formed September 23 and was listed as dissipated September 29.
  • Peak gust: 81 mph at Montauk, New York.
  • Leighton Brown, 56, a New York City Housing Authority worker, died when a tree came down on him in Brooklyn. Four other people were hurt at a playground.
  • More than 200,000 customers lost power at the peak. By Monday morning the count was near 18,000.
  • Flights: about 400 to 550 cancellations. One count listed 439 cancellations and 2,459 delays, including 253 at Boston Logan.
  • Atlantic City called the beach loss the worst since Sandy in 2012. Near Nantucket the surf uncovered a 19th-century wreck.
  • Some spots near Boston reported more than 10 inches of rain. The remnant was forecast toward the Gulf of Maine and Canada around September 30.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2026/09/28/noreaster-impacts-rain-beach-flooding/91982595007/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2026_nor%27easter

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