Check out our Wellesley Storm 2016 page for more pictures of macroburst mayhem

July 19, 2016

A short and wicked late afternoon storm that blew through Wellesley on Tuesday, July 18 downed numerous trees, damaged homes and knocked out power in parts of town. One minute a friend and I were sitting in my family room sipping tea and commenting on the hail coming down outside (“Oh my, do you think those nasty flying ice chunks will chip the paint on the Subaru, dear?”). An hour later I stopped by that same friend’s house, not even a mile away, to survey her hard-hit home in the Cottage St. area.

Plenty more pictures on our Wellesley Storm 2016 page.

Wellesley Storm, 2016
Here, a major limb is tangled up in the phone wires. Delicate work for crews tasked with removing it. Hope they played a lot of Operation when they were kids.