(CNN)A nor'easter that strengthened into a "bomb cyclone" left hundreds of thousands without electricity Wednesday in New England, and strong winds and heavy rains will continue in places until the storm moves into the Atlantic later in the day.
The storm, which flooded parts of the Northeast on Tuesday, picked up strength as the day progressed and hammered parts of New England with extreme winds -- sometimes with gusts of hurricane strength -- knocking down numerous trees and power lines into Wednesday morning.
At the outages' peak Wednesday morning, more than 600,000 homes and businesses were without power in New England, with the majority being in Massachusetts, according to PowerOutage.us.
"TRAVEL IS NOT RECOMMENDED early this morning in southeast MA," the weather service in Boston tweeted Wednesday morning, citing dangerous wind gusts.
Numerous trees were reported down across the Boston area. In Milton just south of Boston, a tree fell onto Colleen McCarthy's home early Wednesday, coming to rest on the roof above a bedroom where a 3-year-old was sleeping, CNN affiliate WBZ reported. No one was hurt.
"I've never been in an earthquake, but that was my first reaction. Our whole house shook. We heard a crack. It really did. It felt like an earthquake," McCarthy told WBZ.
Wind also caused damage along parts of Massachusetts' South Shore. In the coastal town of Cohasset, several boats were blown aground, trees were uprooted and a press box was blown off the stands at a high school athletic field, leaving it smashed and splintered, police said Wednesday.
Several boats were aground in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on Wednesday.
Wind gusts of 74 mph or stronger were recorded Wednesday morning in some parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island -- enough for the National Weather Service to urge coastal residents to stay away from windows. Gusts of 94 mph were clocked in Edgartown, Massachusetts.
With strong winds pushing against trees on saturated ground, "power outages from downed trees are the concern through Wednesday," CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.
A "bomb cyclone" is a rapidly strengthening storm that increases at least 24 millibars (a unit of pressure) in 24 hours -- and typically the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm.
Trees were down Wednesday morning in Malden, Massachusetts, north of Boston.
Around noon Wednesday, more than 495,000 power outages were reported in Massachusetts, 85,000 in Rhode Island, 12,000 in Connecticut and 5,000 in Maine, according to PowerOutage.us.
The storm, which was expected to deliver about 2 to 6 inches of rain in short order over several states from Tuesday into Wednesday, led the governors of New Jersey and New York to declare states of emergency in advance, just weeks after Hurricane Ida left severe flooding there in early September.
Moderate and minor river flooding still was underway Wednesday in parts of northern New Jersey and upstate New York, the weather service said.
High-wind warnings still were in effect Wednesday morning for a swath of coastal New England from Connecticut to Maine.
Winds should remain gusty in parts of New England though Wednesday, though they should diminish in speed in the afternoon, the weather service said.
A wave crashes Tuesday into the retaining wall of a home in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, as a powerful nor'easter makes its way across the region.
'One of the worst I've seen'
Joe Kidston was one of the Massachusetts residents without power Wednesday morning. The electricity went out at his home in Hingham as howling wind pushed down trees around 3 a.m., he said.
"It was one of the worst I've seen," Kidston said of the storm.
Kidston posted video of the storm and its aftermath on Twitter, showing strong and noisy winds during the night and downed tree limbs in the morning.
The debris blocked the road leading to his home.
"We live on a dead end street," he said on Twitter, sharing photos of the trees. "Looks like we're stuck here for a while."
Plymouth County, where Hingham is located, had wind gusts ranging from 40 mph to 85 mph.
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