The remnants of the severe winter storm that overwhelmed New England with heavy snow and hurricane-force gusts lingered Sunday morning in Canada, leaving a trail of power outages in the coastal areas of Massachusetts.
Damage didn’t appear to be extensive for a storm of such magnitude because people were mostly off the roads during the height of the storm on Saturday. The snow was light and fluffy, which limited damage to power lines and trees.
Tens of thousands of people were still without power in coastal Massachusetts areas including Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, where heavy snow, hurricane-force wind gusts and flooding caused the most damage. There were 48,000 power outages in the state on Sunday afternoon, down from a peak of 120,000 on Saturday, according to poweroutage.us. The restoration of power was slowed by high winds.
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