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The massive winter storm — replete with hurricane-force wind
gusts and torrential downpours — slammed Cape Ann's towns as
well as Gloucester under the cover of darkness, leaving
thousands of Rockport, Manchester and Essex residents with
fallen trees, collapsed power lines, blocked roadways and no
power....
The winds lifted and tossed a large container full of
banquet tables onto a fence outside the Sandy Bay Yacht
Club. Despite the minor damage, SBYC Manager Ron Petoff, who
lives across the street from the facility on Atlantic
Avenue, said it could've been worse.
"It was quite a gust of wind to move that thing," Petoff
said, yesterday. "We were very lucky."
A weather station at the yacht club measured winds at
between 70 and 80 miles per hour, Petoff said, with an 87
mile-per-hour gust recorded in Gap Cove, he added.
The Gloucester Daily Times
Friday, February 26, 2010
Rockport, other towns are hit hard by storm
The east-facing shoreline fared the worst of the storm, as
winds reportedly as high as 87 mph swept off the Atlantic
and buffeted the large houses and motels from Gloucester's
back shore to Pigeon Cove in Rockport....
In Gloucester Harbor, three commercial fishing boats were
blown from their berths and were retrieved by the Coast
Guard between 10:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The Gloucester Daily Times
Friday, February 26, 2010
Picking up the pieces
A storm headed north along the mid-Atlantic coast hit
Massachusetts yesterday, and meteorologists expect it to
bring both coastal and inland flooding as melting snow and
rain continues to cause rivers to swell and heavy
wind-driven seas to batter the shoreline....
A coastal flood warning was in effect from the New Hampshire
border down to Boston, and a flood advisory was issued from
Boston down to the Cape and Islands through this morning,
Dunham said.
Waves as high as 22 feet were expected during high tide last
night. In addition, 2- to 3-foot storm surges and beach
erosion are likely as the storm moves west and comes back
toward the coast again, Simpson said.
A high winds advisory was also in effect last night with
wind gusts reaching 55 to 60 miles per hour and making road
conditions perilous. Strong winds were expected overnight,
with wind speeds dropping off significantly today and gusts
only occasionally reaching 25 to 30 miles per hour by
morning, Dunham said.
The Boston Globe
Friday, February 26, 2010
Flooding concerns as storm pelts region
Watch in effect; rivers, coastline the main worry |
