After making its landfall in Rhode Island on Sunday, moving inland, Henri, reduced to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression, turned eastward over to the Atlantic Ocean early on August 24. Leaving a trail of power outages and damage to property across the Northeastern United States, the storm has left some cleaning up to do for the residents. 

No deaths have been attributed to Henri. President Joe Biden has declared disasters in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and Connecticut, opening the purse strings for federal recovery aid to those states.

Residents across the waterlogged Northeast have begun cleaning mud and tearing out sodden carpets, restoring the damaged property and pumping the streets. 

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Roseann and John Kiernan said they’d have to likely toss their appliances, tear up walls and carpets and replace their car after their house filled with nearly two feet of water on Sunday.

“This is what we were left with. Nothing, nothing,” lamented Roseann Kiernan. “They told us that everything has to go.”

“We were initially hoping to be back open by Labor Day, but now it looks like we’ve got to go through all the plumbing and rip out a ton of electrical because we don’t know how much of that was affected. Right now there’s really no timetable,” Luke Becker, who operates the Four Boys ice cream stand along with his three brothers said. 

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy toured the storm-ravaged towns Monday, which remained under a flood warning until midnight.

As per reports, Henri’s remnants, on Monday,  were moving eastward over New England at 9 mph. They are expected to accelerate, prompting flood watches or warnings across swaths of the Northeast.

“I think we escaped any kind of danger so far only because of the length of time it took for the storm to move through. This has been a 24-hour period, so it’s not really the same storm, thank goodness,” Hunter Town Supervisor Daryl Legg from Catskills, New York said. 

“The ground is so saturated with water that every inch of rain creates immediate floods and flash floods,” Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday after seeing damage in the community of Canterbury, where nearly every home lost power Sunday amid heavy winds.

With inputs from the Associated Press