A wild South Shore nor'easter left one Cohasset home taking the hit on Monday, after a telephone pole ended up resting against a house on Nichols Road while trees and wires came down all over town.
Police photos show pole on house, streets littered with debris
In a post on the Cohasset Police Department page, photos show a utility pole leaning into a Nichols Road home, with large tree limbs and downed wires scattered across nearby streets. The department urged residents to stay indoors, treat every fallen wire as energized, and call 911 for emergencies only. Images attached to the post show first responders on scene and crews staging in the neighborhood.
Nor'easter batters the coast with snow and fierce wind
The mess in Cohasset came as a fast-moving nor'easter dumped heavy snow and drove near-hurricane-force gusts along the coastline, according to NWS Boston/Norton. Forecasters logged multiple wind gusts topping 60 to 70 mph and compiled widespread snowfall totals through the morning. Patch reported that more than 285,000 customers across Massachusetts had lost power by midday, with large outage numbers from both Eversource and National Grid as crews worked through hazardous conditions.
Schools close, roads treacherous across South Shore
Municipal officials announced widespread closures as the storm ramped up, and Boston.com listed Cohasset among the school districts shut down on Monday. Towns across the South Shore urged residents to stay off the roads unless travel was absolutely necessary, with whiteout conditions, downed lines and fallen trees making driving dangerous and slowing power restoration work.
Crews staged, but full power restoration could take days
Utility companies said repair crews were positioned around the region, but high winds and poor visibility were limiting where bucket trucks and other equipment could safely operate, a point highlighted in reporting from Patch. Utility officials told the outlet that full power restoration in the hardest-hit communities could stretch over several days. Town leaders said they would continue to push updates through official channels as crews make progress.
Officials: stay inside, avoid wires, reserve 911 for real emergencies
Authorities are asking residents to hunker down, treat any downed wire as live, keep clear of damaged areas and call 911 only for life-threatening emergencies, guidance repeated in the Cohasset Police Department's Facebook post. Residents are urged to report outages directly to their utility provider and to monitor local emergency and town accounts for the latest storm and cleanup information. Officials say the town's Facebook page remains the main spot for immediate local updates and photos of the damage.
