BOSTON (WHDH) - Thousands of people are without power Tuesday morning after an intense rainstorm packing damaging wind gusts lashed Massachusetts overnight.
As of 12:45 p.m., more than 1,300 homes and businesses were without power, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency’s outages map. Earlier in the morning, about 8,000 customers were in the dark.
A peak wind gust of 62 mph was recorded on Nantucket, while gusts in Bedford, Boston, and on Cape Cod neared 50 mph.
The strong gusts knocked a tree onto two cars on Camden Street in Boston’s South End. Crews were called in to clear the mess.
The heaviest of the precipitation has since pushed out but some areas were soaked with more than one inch of rain.
The rain will taper off after 8 a.m. and clouds are expected to break by the afternoon.
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