Tropical Storm Henri, downgraded from a hurricane earlier Sunday, spread across Connecticut throughout ... but the area avoided a surge of water from Long Island Sound. People cross a flooded ...

About 50,000 people across Rhode Island and Connecticut are still ... Related stories Even though Henri made landfall as a tropical storm, not a hurricane, it nonetheless caused flash flooding ...

That's storm surge. It's more deadly and destructive than wind and can make a significant impact far from the center of a storm. The most common way to measure a hurricane's strength is the Saffir ...