HYANNIS – Ferocious winds as high as 64 MPH in Woods Hole and 62 MPH in Truro have caused multiple wires to come down and transformers to come down.
Hyannis was hardest hit with over 2,700 customers out. Traffic lights are darkened at several intersections including the major Route 28/Yarmouth Road one.
Falmouth Police posted this photo of a large tree down on a pickup truck.
Over 1,100 customers were out in Eastham and 332 in Brewster as of 3:30 PM.
A 72 MPH wind gust was reported in Provincetown
As of 4 PM, a downed tree on Main Street in Mashpee had over 1,400 customers without power. 523 were out in Bourne. 70 MPH wind gust in Truro, 77 MPH in Wellfleet. There are reports of a tree down on a house in Brewster.
Falmouth Police photo of tree down on Davisville Road.
As of 5 PM, over 16,000 customers are without power on the Cape. Nearly 10,000 of those are in Barnstable.
CWN’s Jake Callaghan captured the scene in Dennis at Mayfair Road and Setucket Road where a large tree was blocking the road:
As of 6 PM, the National Weather Service had posted an impressive list of wind Gusts on the Cape:
Truro 80 350 PM 2/07 CWOP
Chapin 77 337 PM 2/07 Mesonet
Provincetown AP 75 356 PM 2/07 AWOS
Eastham 75 422 PM 2/07 Mesonet
Waquoit Bay 74 325 PM 2/07 Mesonet
Wellfleet 73 1249 PM 2/07 Ham Radio
Provincetown 72 228 PM 2/07 Amateur Radio
Kalmus 70 414 PM 2/07 Mesonet
Marstons Mills 70 402 PM 2/07 Amateur Radio
Otis AFB 67 255 PM 2/07 AWOS
Woods Hole 67 232 PM 2/07 Amateur Radio
East Falmouth 67 359 PM 2/07 NONE
Chatham 64 413 PM 2/07 Mesonet
West Falmouth 62 328 PM 2/07 Mesonet
Hyannis AP 60 324 PM 2/07 ASOS
Mashpee 55 334 PM 2/07 NONE
Sagamore Beach 54 302 PM 2/07 Mesonet
West Chatham 53 325 PM 2/07 CWOP
Chatham AP 49 333 PM 2/07 ASOS
Falmouth 48 120 PM 2/07 Trained Spotter
Yarmouth 48 354 PM 2/07 CWOP
East Harwich 46 422 PM 2/07 CWOP
Orleans 46 330 PM 2/07 CWOP
As of 9 PM power outages were down to a little over 11,000 including 4464 in Barnstable, 2,367 in Mashpee, and 1,525 in Dennis.
CWN’s Jake O’Callaghan shows us scenes of wind damage in Dennis:
Wind damage in Dennis, MA 2/07/20 from Cape Wide News LLC on Vimeo.
CWN will update this story as it develops
