Winter storm along US East Coast leaves behind power outages, flooding

The U.S. East Coast remained under the threat of menacing weather on Wednesday as a powerful winter storm loomed across the region after leaving in its wake power outages, grounded flights and several towns swamped with flood waters.
More than 50 million people from eastern Ohio up through the Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast were under high wind and flooding advisories on Wednesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
Flooding swamped several New England coastal towns including Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, video footage posted on social media showed. Flood waters inundated streets, crept up to homes and businesses and submerged vehicles, causing officials in the beach town of 2,500 to declare an emergency and order evacuations.
“An emergency has been declared as a result of extremely high seas and flooding,” Hampton Police Department said on X. “If you live in the area we recommend you temporarily leave the area for higher ground.”