UPDATED: Power Restored After Storm

UPDATED MONDAY AT 12:40 P.M.

Information on branch removal: "The Department of Public Works asks Melrose residents to cut any fallen branches in their yards to manageable size (for one worker) and bring them to curbside. Branches will be picked up on the regular yard waste pickup day for each neighborhood."

Thousands of National Grid customers were without power on Sunday morning in Melrose, according to a map of the area on the electric company's website, but by Sunday evening, only a handful of homes were still without power, which appeared largely restored across the city by Monday morning.

The map showed on Sunday morning thousands of customers without power in the downtown area as well as near Ell Pond and in the Mount Hood neighborhood. By Sunday evening, approximately 16 homes were still without power.

On early Monday afternoon, National Grid said via its Twitter account that any remaining Melrose households without power—which appeared to be less than 10—have an estimated restoration time of 11:45 p.m. Halloween night.

Several Melrose residents reported seeing a flash of light late Saturday night around 11 p.m., when the brunt of the storm caused most of the initial outages. Residents in the Highlands and near Sewall Woods reported tree limbs down and outages.

Most of the outages seemed to take hold late Saturday night into Sunday morning, lasting a few hours. Reports from Melrosians had outages in the Highlands from about 10:20 p.m. until 1 a.m., and in the Wyoming Hill area from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Other residents reported losing power around similar times and the power coming back on by Sunday morning.

In the Melrose Police log, the entry from Saturday at 10:36 p.m. said, "Numerous calls from all over the city of power outages—Bay State Road, Wyoming Avenue, Lovell Road, Damon Avenue. Trees down all over city."

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