A powerful nor’easter began pushing its way through the Philadelphia metro area on Sunday, keeping streets wet, winds strong and waters elevated along the shores and tidal rivers.

Showers, gusty winds to linger overnight as nor’easter departs MORE: See what the Jersey Shore looked like as a nor’easter brought more flooding on Monday Continued flooding is expected along the Jersey shore and other tidal areas due to a damaging nor’easter as another high tide coincides with strong winds and storm surges.

In New Jersey, about 9,900 customers are without power, with 2,033 of them in Monmouth County. All of New Jersey has been under a state of emergency since Saturday night. It's expected to last into Monday afternoon, authorizing the state's emergency services personnel to be activated as necessary.

Come Tuesday the atmosphere will begin shedding the Monday blues, and the rest of the week should be about as good as October gets. Highs should be in the low and mid-60s, a few shades below normal, with wall-to-wall sun through Sunday, forecasters say.

After a nor'easter caused flooding and strong winds in Ocean City, New Jersey, and along the coast, conditions are starting to improve. Here's the latest.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a Coastal Flood Warning for parts of New Jersey, in effect until 8 p.m. EDT Monday.

The weekend coastal storm that flooded many South Jersey shore towns gave the region's beaches quite a beating, too. And while some people were sharing pictures and videos of flooding on social media and major roadways in and out of Atlantic City were closed, others in the Garden State were asking, "What storm?"

A nor'easter is churning up the East Coast, prompting declarations of a state of emergency in New Jersey and parts of New York state