Torrential downpours from a faded tropical storm marched into the Northeast on Friday, knocking out power and dousing some eastern cities with more rain in hours than they normally get in months, AP reported. Six people have died so far in traffic related accidents _ five in North Carolina on Thursday and one in Pennsylvania on Friday. Hard rain began falling in Boston early Friday afternoon. The region was bracing for the same sustained rains that have plagued the eastern coast over the last two days. The weather also snarled air, road and train traffic in the New York City area on Friday morning. Motorists and pedestrians there coped with sheets of rain, poor visibility, slick roads, delayed trains and strong wind gusts as they made their way to work. The Federal Aviation Administration reported flight delays of up to three hours at New York's LaGuardia airport. The massive rainstorm drove up the Eastern Seaboard from the Carolinas to Maine on Thursday, the worst of it falling in North Carolina where Jacksonville took on 12 inches (30 centimeters) in six hours _ nearly a quarter of its typical annual rainfall.
