Photos show how a 'bomb cyclone' is slamming the East Coast with walls of water and sending kayakers into the streets

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Winter Storm Riley is rip-roaring its way along the East Coast, slamming homes in Massachusetts with a wall of water. The nor'easter — also known as a bomb cyclone — is bringing devastating winds to spots all along the Eastern seaboard: airports in New York City are too windy to operate, while passengers flying out of Washington DC are getting jostled around so much they're vomiting in their seats. 

And once again, Boston is getting hit with a wall of water and rain. This is the second time this year that Bostonians have had to dig, paddle and sandbag their way through a severe storm. Take a look at how bad things are getting.

In Boston, a row of luxury condos were already flooding on Friday morning, before the worst of the nor'easter got underway.

The National Weather Service said things were going to get worse Friday night into Saturday, with harsh winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour well inland, downed tree limbs, power lines, and wet snow.

On Twitter, Eric Fisher noted that the "Union Wharf" waterfront condos were quickly becoming water-filled condos.

At around 10 a.m., the tide in Boston was already high enough for this kayaker to head out into the flooded streets. The National Weather Service recorded the tide at 14.67 feet high shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday.

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Source: National Weather Service, Boston

By 2 p.m. Eastern, there were reports of nearly 1.6 million power outages along the Eastern seaboard.

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Fairfax, Virginia was especially hard-hit, but the power outages cropped up all along the Eastern seaboard, with pockets of suburbs outside DC, New York, and Boston all falling off the grid, WTOP reported. 

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See Also:

• The nor'easter slamming the East Coast is undergoing the rapid intensification process known as 'bombogenesis'
• The winter storm slamming the East Coast is becoming a 'bomb cyclone' — and the National Weather Service says it could be a life-or-death situation
• A nor'easter is expected to hit the East Coast on Thursday and Friday — and record flooding is possible

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