'Bomb cyclone' leaves more than 600K without power in New England
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A nor'easter that strengthened into a "bomb cyclone" left hundreds of thousands without electricity in New England by Wednesday morning, and strong winds and heavy rains will continue in places until the storm moves into the Atlantic later in the day.
The storm, which flooded parts of the Northeast on Tuesday, picked up strength as the day progressed and hammered parts of New England with extreme winds -- sometimes with gusts of hurricane strength -- knocking down numerous trees and power lines into Wednesday morning.
More than 600,000 homes and businesses were without power in New England on Wednesday morning, including more than 495,000 in Massachusetts, 86,000 in Rhode Island, 14,000 in Maine and 11,000 in Connecticut, according to PowerOutage.us.
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