High winds caused a crane collapse at a casino under construction in Atlantic City, leaving a city police officer injured. The winds also caused at least two homes to collapse in that area and damaged numerous other homes and buildings.
Flood warnings were issued for several rivers in northern Jersey, including the Ramapo River at Mahwah and Saddle River at Lodi, where minor to moderate flooding was expected Saturday night and Sunday. Coastal flood and high wind warnings were in effect for the Jersey Shore.
At least 4 inches of rain had fallen in parts of Atlantic, Camden, Gloucester, and Middlesex counties as of 9 p.m. and an additional 1 to 2 inches was expected through early Sunday. Rain began falling Friday night and combined with strong winds on Saturday, with gusts reaching up to 70 mph.
Winds knocked down numerous trees and power lines, causing power outages across the state.
The hardest-hit area was southern Jersey, where Public Service Electric & Gas reported 130,000 customers without power, while Atlantic City Electric had about 36,000 customers in the dark.
Rail service was suspended on the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line, Raritan Valley Line, Atlantic City Rail Line and the Morris and Essex line west of the Summit line.
The is no service on the Montclair-Boonton line and no service in or out of Hoboken because of flooding at the station, said NJ Transit spokeswoman Penny Bassett Hackett.
"There is sever flooding," she said. "We have downed trees in the way. We're having signal problems on the Northeast Corridor."
In Atlantic City, a city police officer was injured when the crane collapsed and sent debris flying.
Large pieces of debris from the Revel casino construction site "was raining down on about a six-block area" on Saturday, police Capt. Bill McKnight said. The incident spurred the evacuation of two nearby condominium complexes and forced the brief closure of several area roads.
Trees were strewn all along Route 3 in Essex County, about three miles outside the Lincoln Tunnel. The wind was so strong, it blew SUVs off the road.