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Over 600,000 people are without electricity throughout the New York City tri-state area, as well as in southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Sunday.

A nor'easter ripped through the region with wind gusts as high as 74 mph, toppling poles and uprooting trees in the area. Thousands of residents are living in shelters and dozens of homes were seriously damaged or destroyed by trees.

The wind also damaged a crane and collapsed two homes in Atlantic City. Three apartment buildings surrounding the crane will likely be evacuated until Tuesday as crews work to remove the massive crane.

Heavy constant rain and 60 mph wind gusts coupled with melted snow, overflowed several waterways, leaving the town of Bound Brook in central New Jersey under water.

One of every four homes in the town was damaged by water and evacuated. Town officials may soon apply for federal aid. Homeowners need to get the okay to return home in order to begin pumping out their basements.

Several other towns in the area also experienced flooding as residents to the north dealt more with fallen trees and power lines.

Several school districts in New Jersey and in parts of New York cancelled classes for Monday as crews continued to clear roads.

Coastal and low-lying areas throughout the region also experienced flooding, as at least two towns were left under water. The storm was also blamed for six deaths which were caused by falling trees.

Meanwhile in the city of Waltham, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, over 80 residents of an apartment building were rescued by a front-end loader after about five feet of flood water forced them out.

Gusts as high as 69 mph tore off two blades on a wind turbine in Cape Cod as the storm left more than 20,000 without electricity while dumping a steady rain throughout New England.

The area is also under a flood warning. In Greenwich, Connecticut, along Long Island Sound, downed trees lined roadways and covered backyards.

New York State had 200,000 in the dark, 167,000 were without power in New Jersey and 87,000 saw their lights go out in Connecticut.

The storm pounded the northeast Saturday, striking about two weeks after heavy snow and hurricane-force winds left more than 1,000,000 in the dark. More than 500 passengers on a New Jersey Transit train were stranded for six to seven hours because of power supply problems. Amtrak service between Philadelphia and New York was suspended for hours and airline flights were delayed or diverted.

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