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A large Oak Tree fell on a house at 20 Alice Road in Raynham due to the early morning storm that came through the area on Tuesday August 4, 2015
A series of intense thunderstorms that rolled through southeastern Massachusetts on Tuesday morning, leaving destruction, downed trees and power failures in their wake.
In Raynham, the storm’s strong winds splintered a tree in half, sending the lumber crashing through a fence and onto Brian Oldfield’s home at 20 Alice Road.
Oldfield said the tree, which was located in his neighbor’s yard, landed on his three-season room, ruining it. It also caused significant damaged to the roof of his home.
The Raynham man said he was on his way home from work when tree fell, but his wife and 5-year-old son, Michael, were both home at the time of the incident.
“My son was real shaken up. He thought the house was going to fall down,” Oldfield said. “He was just getting out of bed when he heard the crash.”
Oldfield said that his family was unable to stay in the house Tuesday night because officials had not been able to thoroughly inspect the area to make sure there was no structural damage. He added that a crane was scheduled to remove the tree from the property on Wednesday, at which point an assessment of the property’s structural integrity would be made.
While Oldfield was contending with the tree that had fallen on his home, residents in Bridgewater were seeking cover from a barrage of lightning strikes that was crashing down on the area.
Bridgewater Fire Chief George Rogers said his firefighters responded to lightning strikes at five houses and an apartment building and provided mutual aid at a two-alarm fire, all within a one-hour period Tuesday morning.
The lightning struck houses on Satucket Trail, Dominique Circle, Easy Street, Pheasant Lane and Pleasant Street and an apartment building at Waterford Village.
At Satucket Trail, lightning splintered a 40-foot pine tree then traveled underground into the house, blowing holes in the walls, Rogers said.
On Dominque Circle, lightning struck a shed and then traveled into the house, where it tripped the breakers, he added.
As the lightning rained down from the sky in Bridgewater, 3,000 Brockton residents lost their power Tuesday morning during the storm.
The blackouts in Brockton were on the northeast side of the city near Raintree Circle, East Ashland Street, Pomona Drive and Oberlin Drive, according to the Brockton Emergency Management Agency.
Residents in west Abington, Rockland, Whitman and Easton also lost power.
By 11 a.m. Tuesday, a spokeswoman for National Grid said that power had been restored to nearly all of the residents in the affected area.
Courtesy of raynham.wickedlocal.com
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