CAPE COD – Severe thunderstorms moved across the Cape this morning causing a number of problems. Mashpee Firefighters were called to the scene of a house fire on Red Cedar Road believed to be the result of a lightning strike. Brewster rescuers rushed to the end of Ellis Landing Road for a report of a missing kayaker in the bay-luckily he anchored off and rode out the storm until it was safe to return to shore. Numerous reports of trees and limbs down on wires with some 12,874 Eversource customers without power-mostly in the mid and upper Cape as of 8:30 a.m. Update: as of 4 p.m. most of the larger outages had been restored but 882 customers were still out in Orleans, with 367 in Bourne and 216 in Wellfleet. Update as of 6 p.m. only scattered outages were still reported.
Slideshow: Storm damage in Bourne. All photos courtesy of Bourne Police except as noted:
Video by Tim Caldwell/CWN
As you are probably aware, another area of severe weather developed on the mainland during the afternoon prompting tornado warnings in some areas. CWN’s Jake O’Callaghan was in Boston and captured the dramatic hail storm that roared through in the afternoon:
That squall line even spawned a waterspout in Boston Harbor. About an hour later, CWN managing editor Tim Caldwell was preparing for his afternoon swim at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown and captured these eerie wall clouds as the squalls passed well to the north of the area:
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