They left behind hundreds of downed power lines and trees that littered roads and damaged homes.
The utility plans to install stronger power lines and cut nearby trees in areas outside of Manhattan, including the installation of 30 miles of new overhead lines.
Power lines and trees fell on rail lines across the state, and sections of the New Jersey Coast Line were washed away.
Including the two boys from South Jersey, a total of 13 people died as a result of downed trees and power lines, officials said.
In Nashville, the weather service listed dozens of damage reports across the region: a funnel cloud was reported early Wednesday in Jackson County, there were dozens of reports of downed trees and power lines, and law enforcement reported damage to homes and businesses.
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The infrastructure that connected these homes to the most basic of services was severed when hurricane-force winds brought trees down across power lines and transformers were fried in a deluge of salt water.
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Moreover, these towns refuse to take responsibility when one of their trees takes down power lines, damages a house or car, or worse a transformer.
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"That's going to add to the weight of the trees, to the power lines, " Heitkamp said.
The weather was windy and wet and included a reported tornado on Friday in Bexar, just west of San Antonio, that knocked down trees and power lines and caused "minor building damage, " according to the National Weather Service.
Most of the lines are caused by tree limbs, but in some cases, entire trees have been blown over.
He's also joining with other town conservancy groups and the League of Women Voters to study legislation aimed at protecting trees and burying power lines.
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The storm system swatted down power lines and uprooted trees, flicked big rigs on their sides and yanked off part of the terminal roof at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport, where some 1, 500 area residents had taken shelter in a tunnel.
The two principal reasons were that generators used for backup power cannot run when underwater, and many of the wired lines carrying signals from the towers to the networks were knocked out by wind and trees.
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The West Virginia Department of Transportation reported accidents on three major highways in the state and said fallen trees and power lines were complicating efforts to clear roads.
African elephants are known to avoid acacia trees occupied by honey bees, so villagers in the south of the country are now constructing lines of beehives spaced around fields.
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Outages that used to last a few hours now can drag on for the better part of a week as repair crews contend with flooding, downed trees and snapped high-voltage power lines across vast regions.
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