New England faced an old enemy Tuesday: Mother Nature
She brought a blizzard with her, one that is hardly unprecedented for this often weather-weary region. While the storm didn't pummel places like New York and New Jersey as much as feared, others remained very much in the thick of it Tuesday.
Residents of Barnstable on Cape Cod, for instance, had drifts of up to 3 feet and whiteout conditions, said police Sgt. Mark Cabral. At 11:10 a.m. Tuesday, the National Weather Service reported that Framingham, Massachusetts, had 30 inches of snow, with more than 18 inches having fallen about 20 miles east in Boston.
It's not just Massachusetts, with nearly 16 inches reported in Portland, Maine; over 21 inches in Hudson, New Hampshire; and 28.5 inches in Orient on New York's Long Island.And, in some of these places, the end still isn't in sight.
That's particularly true for east-facing coastal areas now coping with early morning flooding, heavy snows and potent winds, while bracing for a new high tide -- and the storm surge expected with it -- around 5 p.m.
Nantucket and its 15,000 residents "lost power to the entire island," said police Chief William Pittman, a situation he attributed to sustained winds of roughly 50 mph, punctuated by gusts of around 80 mph.
On Massachusetts' South Shore, the ocean roared inland to flood the Brant Rock Esplanade lined with homes and businesses. The town's police posted a photo of what it called a "major seawall breach (that) caused structural damage" to a home, while authorities in neighboring Duxbury showed a deck blown yards away from a home. And not far away in Scituate, slushy ice, seawater and debris clogged streets.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/27/us/weather-storm/index.html
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