Delaware coast could be pummeled with high winds, waves

Until the storm winds down, however, most of the Garden State remains under a blizzard warning, as winds continue to howl with powerful gusts and roads remain treacherous.

Officials say that Saturday night and Sunday morning’s tidal flooding isn’t expected to be as severe as Saturday morning’s.

People along the Jersey Shore are dealing with heavy snow, gusty winds and the potential for major coastal flooding as the first winter storm of the season moves across the state.

Wherever you will be Saturday morning is where you will be the rest of the day. In Wildwood, where hundreds of people were evacuated, Saturday, officials have said flooding was worse than they saw during superstorm Sandy.

The National Weather Service said it was too soon to tell whether the snowfall will break records around Washington D.C. and Baltimore.

New Jersey Transit had shut down all trains, buses and light rail service Saturday due to the storm.

“Although we cautioned residents beginning on Friday about venturing out into the hazardous conditions caused by the snowstorm, many disregarded these appeals yesterday and brought their cars out onto the street and got stuck in the snow”, Baraka said in a statement.

Broadway theaters canceled matinee and evening performances at the urging of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who warned that the storm may rank among the top five blizzards ever to hit the nation’s largest city.

More than 7,100 airline flights were canceled across the country on Friday and Saturday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.com.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which includes the country’s second-busiest subway system, took the rare step of suspending operations from late Friday through Sunday.

“We had a lot of evacuations, a lot of people who had stayed in their homes not anticipating this, needing to be rescued”, Rosenello said.

Gus Herrera, a homeowner in Ocean City, Cape May County, said he tried for hours Saturday to get to his family in Somers Point but was trapped by floodwaters that turned his house into an island.

In a reversal of normal winter storms, lesser amounts of snow are forecast for the northern part of the area.

Just before noon, the National Guard arrived to help the stranded drivers, the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Twitter account said.

But snowfall in most of the major cities affected will likely finish early Sunday morning, except for some isolated flurries, CNN Meteorologist Sean Morris said.

“It’s not just coastal flooding from the ocean but the bay as well”, she said.

North of Route 80 may only get one to three inches of snow, while south of Route 78 may still get more than a foot of accumulation, according to Emergency management.