Southern MA- Storm Damage 12-9-05

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Date: 12/9/05

Time: approx. 11:00am-5:00pm

Location: Southern MA, including Plymouth, Bristol, Barnstable counties

Departments: Multiple agencies

Description: Winter Storm damage

Links: Storm Damage

Damage Reports

Writer: UnleashedFF248

Numerous MVA's, trees down, wires down. Local agencies responded to appox. 6-10 calls an hour for both box alarms and MVA's. Power outages widespread (150,000 without power on Cape Cod). Snowfall rates reached 5+ inches per hour during "thunder-snow" around 2-4pm. Wind gusts in excess of 60mph inland and 85+mph on the coast reported. Multiple FD's requested a full recall of personell.

Widespread coastal flooding on the Cape. Comair flight 5437 was hit by lightning and made an emergency landing at Logan airport in Boston. No injuries were repoted but the plane sustained damage.

Dennis firefighters faced a house fire at the height of the storm's fury. Firefighters found a downed electrical wire in Dennisport, which ignited a natural gas fire in the street. And while crews were at the scene, a nearby house at 63 Depot St. caught fire.