Here's MA Power Outage Update By Town And When To Expect It Back

BOSTON, MA — The severe nor'easter that blasted states from Virginia to Maine took especially brutal aim on Massachusetts, dropping snow and rain across the state Friday and into Saturday while vicious winds uprooted trees and snapped utility poles, cutting electricity to more than a half-million homes and businesses.

The good news: about 200,000 of those outages had been fixed heading into Saturday night.

The very bad news: that leaves a bit more than 300,000 people still in the dark, and some of them won't get their power back for several days, maybe even a week.

Much of the Cape and the Islands were hardest hit. About 120,000 homes and businesses in Plymouth County — more than half of its electric customers — were without power early Sunday. Barnstable still had about 77,000 outages and Bristol about 55,000. The rest of the state made up the remainder of outages, including fewer than 2,000 in Boston.

Here's a map you can click on to locate the outages across the state.

Eversource predicts full restoration will take until precisely...the company won't say. But it tweeted Saturday that it would take all weekend and likely into next week. Later, though, the company tweeted that work has been slowed by continuing high winds.

Duxbury officials weren't so optimistic.

We are getting many inquiries on power restoration. What we are being told is Wednesday to as late as Saturday for FULL restoration. As always there are critical properties that are a priority. Please call @EversourceMA with any questions on your power restoration.
— Duxbury Fire PIO (@DXFD_PIO) March" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/DXFD_PIO/s... 3, 2018

"People in these homes need to plan for a prolonged outage," Kurt Schwartz, director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, said as the storm approached. "This is a multi-day restoration event.""This is one of the more extreme storms in recent memory in terms of coastal flooding and damaging wind potential along the coast, but also includes heavy wet snow and heavy rain as important factors," MEMA said.

Near-record high tides sent waves of water crashing over seawalls and onto land in New England's coastal towns, turning roads into gushing rivers and yards in some areas surrounded flooding homes like moats. Tides of nearly 15 feet were recorded at Boston Harbor.

In addition to the sandbags at Aquarium, the MBTA early closures and at least one downtown buliding with its front door blown out downtown, here's a look at a few of the scenes that happened in Greater Boston:

Quincy seemed to be hit especially hard. National Guardsmen were out driving specially equipped vehicles rescuing people who hadn't evacuated all day and into the night, where roads had turned into waterways.

No Greater Boston community went completely unscathed from wind and water damage.

Watertown's Arsenal Street was closed overnight as crews worked to fix the eight downed powerlines between Irving and School streets.

Brian Peterson who lives on Arsenal Street said he heard a huge explosion Friday as the tranformers and powerlines came down. Workers told him Saturday it would take until at least 10:45 p.m. until power would be back on the street.

In South Boston neighbors reported a three story home under construction was moving around with the high winds pretty suspicously so the fire department came out to make sure it didn't collapse.

In Brookline police said 20 seconds after a family got out of this car a tree fell ontop of it, crushing the back and popping the front wheels up into the air.

In Newton a tree fell on this house while folks were home, knocking items off the wall and letting water into the top floor, but no one was injured, according to firefighters.

As of noon:

Scenes from the North End:

Photos at the top by Jenna Fisher/Patch and Maz