BOSTON (WHDH) - Thousands of residents were left in the dark after severe weather swept across the Bay State Wednesday.
Torrential rains and strong wind gusts moving across much of Massachusetts left more than 13,000 homes and businesses without power around 5:20 p.m., according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
The majority of the outages were reported in North Shore towns with 50 percent of Manchester’s population temporarily in the dark.
Parts of Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk counties are under a severe thunderstorm warning until 9 p.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Cambridge police responded to several reports of trees toppling onto wires due to the storms.
Residents are asked to avoid the Mount Pleasant Street, Walden Street, Holmes Street, and Appleton Street areas while crews work to repair the damage.
We have reports of several trees and wires down due to the storms:
Trees Down
Lowell St (Tree & Wire)
Mt Auburn St & Trail St
Stearns St (Tree and Wire)
Fawcett St
Mt Auburn St (near Ash)
Alpine St & Concord AveWires Down
Mt Pleasant St
Walden St
Holmes St
Appleton St— Cambridge Police Department (@CambridgePolice) July 31, 2019
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