Henri Hurls Rain As System Settles Atop Northeast

The slow-rolling system named Henri is taking its time drenching the Northeast with rain, lingering early on Monday atop a region made swampy by the storm’s relentless downpour.

Henri, which made landfall as a tropical storm Sunday afternoon in Rhode Island, has moved northwest through Connecticut.

It hurled rain westward far before its arrival, flooding areas as far southwest as New Jersey before pelting northeast Pennsylvania, even as it took on tropical depression status.

Over 140,000 homes lost power, and deluges of rain closed bridges, swamped roads and left some people stranded in their vehicles. Beach towns from the Hamptons on Long Island to Cape Cod in Massachusets exhaled from being spared the worst of the potential damage Sunday. Other areas of New England awaited the storm’s return.