“As we’ve seen in recent weeks, severe weather is not to be taken lightly. Flooding, wind damage, downed trees, tree limbs — all these things create real hazards and problems for people,” Massachus…
Hurricane Lee was barreling towards New England and eastern Canada as a powerful Category 1 storm early Saturday, forcing fishermen to flee from its path and retreat back to their harbors.
The sprawling storm is forecast to be more than 400 miles wide when it makes landfall, with winds still topping 40-65 mph and heavy rains that are likely to cause power outages and coastal flooding, according to forecasters. “There’s going to be huge white rollers coming in on top of 50 to 60 mph winds. It’ll be quite entertaining,” Lobsterman Bruce Young, who had his 38-foot boat moved to the local airport, told the Associated Press.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Maine Gov. Janet Mills have both declared a state of emergency and asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to issue a pre-disaster emergency declaration.
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