Two people look down Mountain Avenue at the flooding Sunday along Main Street in Bound Brook, N.J. Several inches of rain had fallen in the area causing the Raritan River to overflow.

Egg Harbor City, N.J. ? Last month, the Northeast was smothered by blizzards. Now, it’s waterlogged by torrential rains.

The region mopped up Sunday following a bout with high wind and heavy rains that uprooted trees, downed power lines and flooded creeks and rivers. At least seven people died in storm-related accidents, and hundreds of thousands were without electricity.

More than a half-million customers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut lost electricity at the peak of Saturday’s storm, which carried wind gusts of up to 70 mph. The storm came about two weeks after heavy snow and hurricane-force winds left more than a million customers in the Northeast in the dark.

“I spent most of the past few months clearing snow and ice out my driveway, sidewalks, front walks, and now we’re picking up all these branches,” Jack Alexander said as he and his family worked to clear debris from the front yard of their Egg Harbor City home. “It seems like we’ve had every type of weather event you could have this winter.”

Farther north in Jackson Township, drivers were negotiating stretches of flooded roadways and detours caused by fallen trees and accidents.

Hundreds of people remained out of their homes in the northern Jersey community Bound Brook, where flooding is common.

Among those in a shelter were the Malik family, including eldest son Norbert, who celebrated his 9th birthday Sunday.

His mom said he had cried Saturday night because he was worried the storm would ruin his celebration. Instead, he said it was the best birthday he ever had.

“I woke up, and I got to ride in a police boat, and then a truck and a small bus,” said Norbert, accompanied by a new friend he’d met at the shelter. “I came here and met all my friends and got to help the Red Cross people mix iced tea.”

About 400 Atlantic City, N.J., residents remained displaced for a second day Sunday as crews tried to take down a crane that snapped and twisted at the Revel Entertainment casino construction site, sending debris crashing through a window of a police cruiser but not hurting anyone.

The displaced residents live in a condominium complex and two apartment buildings near the site, and they were ordered to leave their homes because of safety concerns. They may not be able to return until Tuesday.

In Manhattan, Broadway’s sidewalks and trash cans were littered with hundreds of shattered umbrellas.

The New York Police Department said it received its second-highest volume of emergency calls in a 24-hour period during the storm: 65,000 calls, most related to the weather, between Friday night and Saturday night, behind only the 96,000 calls received on the first day of a massive 2003 blackout.