The fourth Nor'easter to batter the Atlantic Coast in a month has been responsible for at least four deaths so far, officials said, and an earlier one killed 8.
On Wednesday, a 51-year-old woman was killed in a weather-related van rollover on the Wantagh State Parkway near the Hempstead Turnpike on Long Island about 10 a.m., WNBC-TV reported. Four of the five other women in the car were injured, Nassau County police said.
WABC-TV reported a 62-year-old woman in Bellmore, on Long Island, died while shoveling snow, apparently from a heart attack, and Toms River, New Jersey police found a woman, 87, who suffered from dementia and Alzheimer's disease, dead in the snow on Thursday after she went missing two hours before from a mobile home park.
In a fourth death, NBC News reported that in Newark, Nafis Majette, 32, was killed when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by a stolen Audi, per officials. Alan Aberden, 26, of East Orange, was charged with aggravated manslaughter, vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident and receiving stolen property, the Essex County prosecutor's office said.
The New York Times reported on March 3 that at least eight people died after heavy snow, rain and high winds hit the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic during the earlier nor'easter. Four of the deaths involved falling trees or branches.
NBC News reported the latest nor'easter left areas of New York City and Long Island under more than 12 inches of snow, the most for the region in the early spring since 1964. Patchogue on Long Island topped all areas with a high of 20 inches.
LaGuardia Airport was hit with 9.6 inches of snow while John F. Kennedy International Airport got 8.7 inches, NBC News said.
Power officials said Thursday that more than 29,000 customers were waiting for electricity to be restored in 13 states and Washington, D.C., per NBC News. More than 25,000 of those customers were in New Jersey.
The fourth storm originated in the South, where the system hit Texas with hail Sunday and created tornadoes in Alabama on Monday and Tuesday, then produced severe storms in Florida on Tuesday, NBC News said.
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