1.   As a result, bands of clouds and thundershowers will brush the coast from southern Virginia to Florida.

2.   Clouds from an offshore storm will brush the coast from southern New England to the Middle Atlantic states.

3.   Farther west, scattered thundershowers will brush the coast of northern Texas and Louisiana.

4.   Overnight, an area of heavy rain will brush the coast from southern New England to Maryland.

5.   Rain will brush the coast from the Carolinas to New England Thursday as a series of weak low pressure areas move along a front near the Atlantic Seaboard.

6.   Power lines fell, the rain fell sideways, streets were vacated and palm trees bent as the storm brushed the coast and then moved inland.