Storms in US northeast kill four

At least four people died across four states as a powerful storm battered parts of the East Coast over the weekend and stretched into the Northeast Monday, knocking out power, washing out roads and prompting one community’s evacuation.

A 72-year-old woman died in South Carolina after her vehicle was submerged in water during storms, according to Charleston newspaper Post and Courier. The city coroner’s office said the death was storm-related, the paper reported. The area received more than six inches of rain on Sunday.

In Pennsylvania, a 73-year-old man died early Monday after his vehicle was also submerged in high water after heavy rainfall, according to coroner’s office in Lancaster County.

A 40-year-old man died in Maine on Monday after he went to his roof to clear off a large tree piece that fell during a windstorm and was struck by another piece of a tree, authorities said.

An 89-year-old man was killed Monday in Massachusetts after “high winds and rain caused a tree to collapse” on a small travel trailer in Plymouth County, according to the area’s district attorney. The man, who had been trapped inside, suffered severe head trauma and was taken to a hospital, where he died, District Attorney Timothy Cruz said.

In both Maine and New Hampshire, there were multiple reports of water rescues, the National Weather Service said Monday._Agencies.