Storm Lee toppled trees and cut power to tens of thousands Saturday as its outer bands began hitting coastal New England and eastern Canada, threatening hurricane-force winds, dangerous surf and torrential rains as its center spun closer.
Severe conditions were predicted across parts of Massachusetts and Maine, and hurricane conditions could hit the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where the storm, downgraded early Saturday from hurricane to post-tropical cyclone, was expected to make landfall later in the day.
"We have a long way to go, and we're already seeing downed trees and power outages," Foisy said Saturday. Two lobstermen -- one of them Billy Bob Faulkingham, House Republican leader of the Maine Legislature -- survived after their boat overturned while hauling traps Friday ahead of the storm, officials said.
But even as they prepared, New Englanders seemed largely unconcerned. In Maine, where people are accustomed to damaging winter nor'easters, some brushed aside the coming Lee as something akin to those storms, only without the snow.
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