People walk past an office building protected by temporary flood barriers in Boston, Massachusetts. The street-level flooding receded later in the afternoon, but high winds whipped up whitecaps and tossed sailboats moored in Boston Harbor. Passenger railroad Amtrak halted service between New York, Boston and Washington. High water rescuesPolice in Quincy, Massachusetts, were using heavy front-end loaders to rescue people from flooded homes. Sarah Moran, a 59-year-old mother of six, was fretting whether her family's oceanfront home in Scituate, Massachusetts, south of Boston, would survive.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 02, 2018 23:48 UTC