CAPE COD – Multiple damage reports were coming in Wednesday evening after a severe squall line crossed the Cape.
Power was out to all of Provincetown after primary power lines came down on Bradford Street near the Gifford House affecting over 4,600 customers. Multiple other scattered outage reports along with several down trees or limbs are reported across the region. In addition to the 4,600 customers out in Provincetown, 3,000 are out in Falmouth, with over 700 each in Bourne and Barnstable. A Large tree was reported down on a house on Maravista Avenue in Falmouth. No injuries reported. Multiple other calls for large limbs down blocking area roads across the region.
As of 8:30 PM, 4,600 remained out in Provincetown, Falmouth was down to 1,000, Barnstable had over 1,400, Orleans had 774 out and Dennis had 500 out.
As of 10 PM. Power in Provincetown had been partially restored with 1,326 still out, Falmouth was down to 329. Yarmouth had 1,339 out with 339 out in Dennis.
As of 11:30 PM, Less than 500 customers were out in Provincetown and Bourne. All other major outages had been cleared.
Daylight on Thursday: Eversource only has isolated outages remaining on the Cape. Nearly 10,000 were out at the height last night. Checking around Provincetown we saw this large tree limb down on Old Ann Page Way. Witnesses said lightning struck then the winds did the rest:
On Pleasant Street another large limb was found down:
