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The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said that elevated water levels and big waves will affect the USA mid-Atlantic region, “causing significant beach and dune erosion with moderate coastal flooding likely”.

In advance of the deluge, “we have cones and barricades out in locations across the city that can be rapidly deployed if needed”, Mahoney said.

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Hurricane Joaquin over Bahamas on October. 1.

Don’t drive through any flooded roads – “turn around, don’t drown”.

Another rescue mission was successful: On Thursday night, the Coast Guard helicopter lifted 12 sailors from their sinking 212-foot cargo ship besieged by Joaquin and listing 51 miles northwest of Haiti, the guard said.

Emergency officials said there were about 140 water rescues in Dorchester overnight.

Three people died on Friday and Saturday in traffic incidents in South Carolina, and a vehicle passenger died in North Carolina on Thursday when a tree fell on Interstate 95, officials said.

This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, October 4, 2015.at 9:45 AM EDT shows slowly weakening Hurricane Joaquin southwest of Bermuda, moving in a north-northeast direction.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Bermuda was getting lashed Sunday by gusting winds and pelting rains from a weakening Hurricane Joaquin as its spinning centre tracked just southwest of the wealthy financial haven and tourist destination after plowing through the Bahamas as a major storm.

Forecasters in Miami say Hurricane Joaquin, a Category 4 storm, is centered about 500 miles (805 kilometers) southwest of Bermuda and has top sustained winds of 150 mph (240 kph).

Once the rain ends, the threat of flooding persists because the ground is too saturated to absorb water, meteorologists said.

As of Tuesday morning, about 2.44 inches of rain in September had been recorded at the official National Weather Service monitoring station in Rutland, but most of that fell in the span of four days during the second week of September.

We have a lot of weather happening in the next few days – and some of it could be risky to life and property.

Even so, the EIA reports that heavy rain, strong winds and possible flooding could threaten electric infrastructure throughout the mid-Atlantic states. The US Hurricane Center upgraded Joaquin to a Category 4 at 2 p.m. on Thursday, calling the storm “extremely risky”.

Joaquin (wa-KEEN) has sped up a bit as it moves away from the Bahamas, and remains a Category 3 hurricane.