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By The Numbers: The Nor'easter's Impact On Mansfield
About 3,100 homes were in the dark and the Mansfield Police Department received over 900 calls.

MANSFIELD, MA — The town is just about recovered from Friday's storm and needless to say, it caused a lot of damage.
The Mansfield Police Department released the stats from the weekend storm and a short clip of some of the calls they received. Below are the calls and the stats from over the weekend, courtesy of Mansfield Police:
On Friday, Mansfield Police received over 900 recorded phone calls (does not include calls made to the 7301 line). At the start of the 3 p.m. hour, Dispatchers Todesco and Moreau enlisted the help of Officer Pepicelli and were soon joined by Dispatchers Stark, Lako, and Kulbok who came in to assist. They would go on to answer over 200 of those 900 calls in the 3 p.m. hour alone.
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- Twenty homes with substantial damage from trees (more with less damage)
- Four occupied vehicles were struck by trees while driving
- Three hundred trees down, as estimated by DPW
- At one point 30 roads were blocked by trees and/or wires
- About 3,100 customers were without power at the height of the storm, that number was reduced to 850 by Saturday morning, 300 by Sunday morning, and, as of Sunday afternoon, is under 20.
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