FALMOUTH – An unusually late season Nor’Easter is buffeting the Cape with heavy rain and strong winds.
Late Thursday morning, 330 Eversource customers lost power in Falmouth. In an update, Eversource reported animal contact was to blame and they hope to restore service by 4 PM.
About 4:30 PM, 366 customers in Orleans lost power due to falling tree limbs. Utility crews were working to restore service.
About 100 utility customers in Barnstable lost power after primary wires came down on Route 6A near Colonial Way sparking a small brush fire (above).
As of 6:20 PM, a large tree was down on Route 6A in Barnstable at Scudders Lane blocking the road. Another tree was reported down on Route 6A in Dennis at Sears Road.
Falling tree narrowly missed a house in Harwich.
6:45 PM update: A storng squall line is moving in from the ocean. Over 1,000 Eversource customers lost power in Yarmouth. Fire crews responding to the area of the D-Y Regional High School to investigate a lightning strike. Utility equipment may have been struck but luckily there were no reports of fires. Several other reports of trees down in Dennis, Harwich, Centerville and Sandwich. 211 customers without power in Centerville, 129 in Dennis and 60 in Chatham.
7:00 PM update: The Yarmouth outage has been pared down to 169 customers. Meanwhile falling tree limbs have knocked out power to about 1,000 customers in Dennis.
The Vineyard was also hit by the storm. Oak Bluffs Police posted this photo of street flooding there.
Tree down blocking Pine Street in Centerville.
Via Cape Cod Incidents/CWN
7:30 PM update: Nearly 2,000 utility customers without power in the Marstons Mills area.
8:00 PM update: Reports coming in of at one vehicle stuck in floodwaters in Woods Hole at Nobska Road and Woods Hole Road near the Steamship Authority dock. A Mass State Trooper was able to rescue two people from the vehicle (photo above). Also in Falmouth fire crews are on the scene on Old Dock Road with an apparent house fire, possibly from a lightning strike. There was heavy smoke on the 3rd floor prompting a hose line to be stretched into the house. Hyannis firefighters were called to the Hyannis Port breakwater for a sailboat in distress. The National Weather Service reported a tree down on a car in Dennis. There were no reports of injuries.
9:00 PM update: Another rescue from a flooded vehicle in Falmouth. This one happened on Grand Avenue at Vesper Lane. Many areas of Falmouth are flooded so please do not drive unless it is an emergency (see photos above). Remember: TURN AROUND DON’T DROWN!. Elsewhere mutual aid crews are assisting at a second lightning strike scene in Falmouth with smoke in a house on Ivest Circle. Luckily no serious damage was reported there. some 8,000 customers lost power in the Bourne/Sandwich area with another 3,500 customers out in Orleans and Brewster. A Good Samaritan brought the people from the Hyannis Port sailboat incident into Lewis Bay (below).
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All Falmouth Flood photos by David Curran/Satellite News Service/CWN
10:00 PM update: Doppler radar estimates nearly 3 inches of rain fell in Falmouth in a very short time. Amateur radio weather spotters reported 5-6 inches. About 4,000 customers without power in the Sandwich area, 1,100 in the Brewster area. Several other scattered outages across the Cape.
11:30 PM update: Still 2,000 Eversource customers in the Sandwich area without power. Scattered outages persist across the Cape. Line crews will be working through then night to restore service.
8:30 AM update: 142 customers without power in Orleans, 70 in Wellfleet. Some other isolated outages as line crews continue to restore service.
CWN will be monitoring the storm and post further updates here.
