Thousands were plunged into darkness as the initial wall of a severe Nor’easter crashed into the East Coast — with millions of people in the path of the intense storm barreling towards the region early Saturday morning.
Over 24,000 customers in New Jersey were left without power as of 5 a.m. on Saturday, with most blackouts centered around Cumberland, Monmouth and Ocean Counties, according to tracker PowerOutage.us.
Roughly 16,000 New Yorkers were in the dark — 9,300 of whom live in Suffolk County and another 3,700 in Nassau County.
The rapidly strengthening nor’easter is expected to create dangerous conditions with heavy rain and high winds…
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