Heavy rain, winds cause significant damage across Mass.

After heavy rain and damaging winds throughout the day, residents and fire departments recalled close calls from a tumultuous Thursday in Massachusetts as the dust cleared from the wet weather.

Dozens of trees snapped throughout the evening hours as relentless winds held intensity, with dark and dreary conditions gripping much of eastern Massachusetts for hours on end.

"It's miserable," Norwood resident Wanda Wood said. "It's a mess. Absolute mess out here."

Wood was one of the lucky ones experiencing a close call, with a giant tree in her front yard falling toward Richland Road away from her Norwood home.

"I'm just looking at my house, glad it's still standing," Wood said.

Others weren't as lucky, like the family inside a Cross Street home in Hanson when a giant pine tree plummeted down, penetrating their roof.

"People are unable to stay there, they were very shaken up," Hanson Fire Chief Jerome Thompson said. "It's significant, the roof will probably have to be completely replaced."

Hanson Fire Chief Jerome Thompson said it was one of 13 urgent calls that sent crews scrambling during a two-and-a-half hour time span.

In Duxbury, 37 calls inundated the department through the afternoon, with crews working throughout the night to clear the aftermath.

"There was a three to four-hour window where we had trees into houses, trees into cars," Duxbury Fire Captain Rob Reardon said.

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Reardon said one of those trees came crashing directly on top of a c ar on Lincoln Street, with a 17-year-old behind the wheel caught in the crosshairs of the wild weather event.

"Honestly, he was very lucky," Reardon said. "You can see the amount of intrusion. It just missed him hitting his head. Wrong place, wrong time, little to no time to react to these things."

The 17-year-old was taken to the hospital, but the good news was that he was expected to be okay.

Several police and fire departments credited National Grid for clearing all the downed trees in a timely fashion Thursday afternoon, opening the roads for school buses and drivers on their evening commute.

4 p.m.: Tree falls onto a house in Hanson.

3:50 p.m.: Plymouth Police officer was investigating a downed wire on Braley Lane when another wire fell on her vehicle. Eversource responded and she was safely able to get out of the vehicle.

2:35 p.m.: MassDOT Communications Director Jacquelyn Goddard tweeted that downed trees with wires attached are causing delays on Route 3A in Plymouth.

Goddard also said that high tide flooding has temporarily closed Rt 1A (Beach Road) at Reservation Road in Salisbury.

2:30 p.m.: More than 17,000 customers without power across Massachusetts due to the storm.

2:30 p.m.: The Foxborough Police Department put out on Facebook that power was out in the immediate area while National Grid made repairs, and said the estimated restoration time was 8:15 p.m.

The department said tree lims and primary wires were down on Prospect Street near Granite Street, with the roadway shut down.

1:25 p.m.: Duxbury Fire tweeted that the department is handling several calls for wires and trees down. On Myrtle Street, a large tree and primaries came down, making the road impassable.

12:45 p.m.: Logan Airport announced strong winds are impacting flights. The FAA says average delay at Logan is 1 hour and 17 minutes right now due to strong winds. Passengers are urged to contact their airline for flight information.

12:40 p.m.: Hopkinton Police posted on Twitter that traffic lights at South Street at West Elm Street have been blown down from heavy winds. Drivers should avoid the area as crews work to repair the damage.

12:30 p.m.: Wind gusts were so strong on Thursday that a trailer was flipped over as the truck carrying it was turning a corner. Tom O'Rourke tells Boston 25 News he was making turn on Land Boulevard at Binney Street in Cambridge while towing a modular office when a wind gust flipped it over. 
His truck began to tip, but luckily broke free. The trailer, however, tipped over on top of a fire hydrant.
A towing company was called to help upright the trailer.

11:30 a.m.: Newton Fire crews responded to Bullough Park where a tree fell onto an unoccupied car. The tree took down a utility pole and wires, knocking out power in the area. Eversource is on scene.

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