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Got a boat? Cars float in Boston's 15ft flood of ice chunks, once-in-a-generation storm surge
Boston : Sea ice floats in Boston Harbor, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in Boston. After a week of frigid temperatures, a major winter storm is predicted for the region on Thursday. /AP-PTI
A Boston firefighter waded through floodwaters from Boston Harbor on Long Wharf in Boston on Thursday.
Boston firefighters waded through floodwaters from Boston Harbor in front of the Marriott Long Wharf hotel Thursday.
A flooded car is stranded on Central St. near Commercial Wharf as the storm surge floods the waterfront. Herald photo by Dan Atkinson
Boston firefighters help a pedestrian into a rubber rescue boat at Atlantic and State Streets as seawater from the storm surge floods the coast. Herald photo by Dan Atkinson
Boston Fire Rescue One save a man from his flooded car on Commercial Wharf during the storm on Thursday,January 4, 2018. Staff Photo by Nancy Lane
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Boston experienced historic flooding on Thursday, as a 'bomb cyclone' winter storm hit the Northeast, bringing heavy snow, winds and storm surge.
Meteorologists said Boston was unofficially nearing a water level record set during the Blizzard of 1978.
Here's how bad the flooding was during Thursday's storm
As Massachusetts was walloped by a nor’easter Thursday, it was the devastating flooding that captivated social media. Those hardy enough to brave the elements took to the streets to capture the once-in-a-generation storm surge. Ice chunks floated down Atlantic Avenue in downtown Boston, a dumpster bobbed along in the surf on a street in the city’s Seaport, and tides erupted into South Shore neighborhoods. Firefighters were spotted on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Boston after the streets there became flooded with icy water.
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Photo courtesy AP-PTI , EPA and AP, Boston Herald / Dan Atkinson and Nancy Lane , Boston Globe, and Clayton Anderson, Michael Dwyer / AP, Steve Annear / Boston Globe Staff
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This is worst winter flood what Boston city has every faced. Boston public says that this tragic incident which has happened to their city and public was really horrified and clueless what to do with that flood entering into city like evil coming on them to kill them.
It is a very serious disaster of weather, the snow has damaged the life very badly. The rescue teams are working in a good way for people. i was searching such article to get pay for assignment
may God bless on them....
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What a disaster.I really felt sad by hearing this news.The storm, packing winds gusts of more than 70 miles per hour (113 kph), dumped a foot or more of snow throughout the region, including Boston and parts New Jersey and Maine, where heavy snow continued to fall early on Friday.