Cracked, fallen tree in Chestnut Hill. Photo by MBTA.
The MBTA reports it's restored service on the Green Line to and from Riverside, following a windswept tree cracking and falling along the line in Chestnut Hill during the storm. Rider can still expect some delays, but no longer have to get on a shuttle bus for part of their ride.
As you might expect, Boston 311 is getting lots of reports about downed trees, including this one on a car on Symphony Road in the Fenway.
Never mind all the talk about dropping pressure and bombogenesis and stuff: The mark of a true nor'easter in Boston is when a boat washes up on Carson Beach (added points if it then stays there for weeks on end). Roving UHub photographer Jim Gavaghan provides all the evidence we need that that was some blow overnight: Not one, but two boats washed up on the beach. Read more.
Matt Conti shows us a boat on dry land in the North End after the storm overnight. He has more photos of damage in the North End.
John Hanzl surveyed the damage along Harbor Towers: Read more.
The nor'easter at 9:40 p.m., as seen by the GOES-16 satellite.
The National Weather Service has a high-wind advisory posted until 6 p.m. Thursday.
It’s a blustery day in New England pic.twitter.com/TT5X4Fkak5
— Teen (@Chrissy_B67) October 11, 2019
Chris Gloninger shows us the Nor'easter-toss'd sea foam at Nantasket Beach.
If the sailboats at Jamaica Pond were candlepins, the role of the ball today would be played by the wind, Travel New England reports.
NECN reports a person in a car on Wellington Street was injured after a tree fell on the car around 5 a.m.
Man climbs onto roof of car in Malden floodwaters.
Julio Salado had a ringside seat for the flooding along Eastern Avenue in Malden at the height of the afternoon pleasantries. In all, four cars were stuck, he reports: Read more.
A roving UHub photographer came across this scene during the afternoon weather at Park and Bourneside by Town Field in Fields Corner (and yes, for all you cranky commenters, he was fully stopped, at a red light).
Daniel Guzman reports he was walking through Hynes Field in West Roxbury around 11:30 a.m., when this light pole came crashing down in a gust of wind. "Scared the crap out of me," he says. Read more.
Tim spotted this wide load that the wind tipped over on Land Boulevard in Cambridge today.
A National Weather Service wind advisory that remains in effect until 5 p.m. says we could get gusts of up to 55 m.p.h. today.
This morning, Jeremy Sarna watched workers restore the cladding that fell off one of those brand-spanking new buildings on Boylston Street in the Fenway in the wind yesterday. The wind-whipped building pieces shut Boylston Street overnight and into this morning.
Roberto shows us the umbrella resting ground for people who try to get across Copley Square on a day like today.
— Bostongal26 (@Bostongal26) December 21, 2018
The wind ripped the plastic wrap right off 6 Beacon St., undergoing renovation. Read more.
Brad Squirrels reports a totally healthy tree was snapped in two by the wind - with the falling part landing on a neighbor's car behind his house on Franklin Street in lower Allston.
The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning that goes into effect at noon on Saturday: Winds of 20 to 30 m.p.h., with possible gusts up to 60.
Damage to trees, power lines, and property are possible with winds of this magnitude. Power outages are likely. Take action to secure loose outdoor objects
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