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MA Power Outages At 95K As 70+ MPH Winds Gust
Wind gusts as high as 77 miles per hour have been recorded. In Stoughton, 98 percent fo the town is in the dark.
Nearly 100,000 customers are without power across Massachusetts as intense winds continue to blow Friday evening. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said there were 95,372 without power as of 7 p.m., the majority of outages taking place in the southeastern part of the state.
Power lines are strewn across streets and tree limbs litter roads as wind gusts of more than 50 miles per hour consistently whip around the state. The highest gust recorded Friday was 77 mph on the Cape.
The hardest-hit community is Stoughton, where 98 percent of the town — or 12,561 people — is in the dark.
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"Most of the town is without power," Stoughton police tweeted. "We do not have the staff to cover intersections without traffic lights as we are answering dozens of calls. Treat all Intersections as 4 way stops. Please DO NOT call the police for power related calls. Deep breaths, we’ll get through this."
In Barnstable, 9,835 are suffering outages.
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Several more communities in Plymouth County and along the Cape have thousands without power, including more than half the customers in Hanson, Pembroke, West Bridgewater and Whitman.
No injuries have been reported.
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