Friday’s blustery winds toppled a large tree, blocking Kimball Pond Road near its entrance off Route 132 in Canterbury.
Brian Tiltiah, who lives across the street from the tree, said it fell at 10:53 a.m.
“It was loud,” he said.
The tree pulled down power lines, cracked an adjacent utility pole and caused another pole at the intersection to lean.
Tiltiah said the power connection was pulled off his home.
“We’re just lucky it didn’t hit the house,” said Helena Tiltiah, Brian’s wife.
The National Weather Service had a wind advisory on Friday until 5 p.m. with a forecast of speeds around 20 mph and gusts up 50 mph.
The storm fronts that began on Halloween created havoc across the Northeast on Friday.
More than 420,000 customers from South Carolina to Maine and also in Ohio were without electricity late Thursday.
Electric utilities across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine were busy restoring service to tens of thousands of customers who lost power due to high winds.
In Maine, more than 120,000 customers were without power Friday morning. In Vermont more than 20,000 customers were without power and in New Hampshire it was about 16,000.
A flood warning remained in effect for much of northern Vermont through mid-day due to flooding that has closed some roads.
Many schools across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine delayed or canceled classes on Friday.
More than 100,000 homes and businesses were without electricity in the Philadelphia suburbs early Friday. More outages occurred in western Pennsylvania, where storms caused flooding, mudslides and road closures. Trees came down in New Jersey, which had more than 25,000 homes and businesses without power.
More than 200,000 customers were without power in New York state after a night of heavy rain and wind gusts of up to 70 mph.
The weather also caused damage, outages and commuter delays across New York’s Long Island.
(Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.)