Windy weddings and rocky cruises: How East Coasters are braving the nor'easter this weekend
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Talia Manno opened her door on Saturday morning to waves lapping halfway up the front steps to her Atlantic City, N.J., home.
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"It got up to my fifth step," Manno said.
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"I was really freaking out."
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Manno, a lifelong resident, said the last time water came that high was during Hurricane Sandy.
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"Even if you live here and you see high tide and flooding, that was really scary and it happened so fast," she said.
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Manno is among tens of millions of people from the mid-Atlantic through the coast of Maine who are in the path of a powerful and rare September nor'easter that is bringing coastal flooding, heavy rain and high winds this weekend.
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Nearly 80,000 people were without power across New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts, as of Saturday evening, according to the PowerOutage.com map.
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The storm is expected to continue hitting the Jersey Shore, New York City, and Eastern Massachusetts into Sunday, according to NWS.
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Videos posted on social media Saturday showed streets inundated with water in New Jersey, and massive waves hitting the coast.
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In New York City, people were seen kayaking in the streets.
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New Jersey and New York declared states of emergency in counties across the two states, including in New York City.
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Francis Tarasiewicz, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Massachusetts, said wind gusts along the coast could reach up to 60 miles per hour this weekend.
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This nor'easter comes earlier than the typical October through May storm season, he said, and will last longer than normal.
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"Many nor'easters affect the area over the course of about a day," he said.
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But, Tarasiewicz said, "with this one, we're looking at about a 48-hour period of winds greater than 35 to 40 miles per hour across the area.
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The nor'easter is also making travel difficult.
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More than 1,000 flights were canceled Saturday with thousands more delayed, according to data from FlightAware.
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Ferry services on Cape Cod and in Rhode Island were disrupted, and Amtrak canceled several trains due to the weather and downed wires.
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Off the coast of New York, the strong winds made for a rough cruise ride for Jessica Lisboa.
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She brought green apples, ginger ale and an acupressure anti-nausea bracelet to prepare for the Bermuda-bound cruise.
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"Let me not sugarcoat it.
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It was a little wild," Lisboa said.
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"It felt honestly like a roller coaster."
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Still, she considered it a worthwhile adventure.
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The nor'easter also took out a number of events planned for the weekend.
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Oceans Calling, one of Maryland's biggest music festivals, was canceled on Friday.
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An AC/DC concert in New Jersey was rescheduled.
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The Boston Red Sox announced they would move their game against the Chicago Cubs.
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Some East Coasters found a way to adapt.
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When Olga Ostrovetsky picked a date in September for her small outdoor wedding, she envisioned a beautiful, fall day.
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But as she got ready to tie the knot in Wallkill, N.Y., she said, "It's very, very windy."
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At first bummed, she's now finding the positives in the disruption.
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"It's kind of fitting, to be honest, because my fiancé and I met and it was a torrential downpour," she said.
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"We met on a day like this, and we're also getting married on a day like this," she said.
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As for Manno, the Atlantic City resident, is planning to spend Saturday night with family away from the coast.
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After this nor'easter, she said she doesn't know how much longer she'll live in the area.
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"As the years pass, it seems like it's just getting more and more flooding," she said.
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