Hurricane Teddy’s winds blew down many tree limbs across the Cape
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CAPE COD – Hurricane Teddy passed a couple of hundred miles east of Cape Cod Tuesday. Stiff winds gusting up to 47 MPH at Chapin Beach in Dennis brought down a few tree limbs. Eversource reported over 400 customers in Barnstable and Yarmouth lost power because of limbs falling on wires. Ferry service to the Islands has been affected by the winds all day. Check with your provider as to their status. Chatham Fire reported minor flooding along some of the shore roads in town. On the outer Cape, Rough surf was the order along the ocean side.
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The raw video above was taken at Lecount’s Hollow Beach in Wellfleet. Ironically just minutes after CWN left the area, a call came in for a boogie boarder in distress at the beach. It was determined to be a good intent call after someone apparently mistook the shark detection buoy for a board.
Update 6:30 PM: About 500 Eversource customers in Truro and Wellfleet lost power about 6:30 PM. Wellfleet Fire was responding to two separate brush fires along the power lines. In a statement, Wellfleet Fire Chief Richard Pauley says the one fire was on Gross Hill Road near the Eversource substation. The second fire was at Long Pond Road and Queen’s Way. The latter blaze burned closed to an unoccupied house but both fires were knocked down. The Chief says he believes “high wind conditions attributed to both fire having been caused by some type of issue with the major electrical transmission lines.”
Eversource spokeperson Reid Lamberty says the company is not sure the brush fires were Eversource related and added that crews were patrolling the failed circuit to determine the cause of the outage.
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At Cove Landing in Harwich, the sheltered area did not see rough surf but did experience a storm surge that swamped a Nissan Rogue.
