Flooding, power outages caused by strong storms Wednesday

BOSTON — Pouring rains and thunderstorms caused problems all across Massachusetts Wednesday, leaving some drivers stranded and residents of many communities with short power outages.

“It sounded like a bomb went off and I said to my grandson oh my god I said lightning hit something really, really close to us,” Weymouth resident Paula Murray said. “Little did I know it was my own house.”

Another storm cell dumped enough rain on Lexington Street in Waltham that numerous drivers learned the hard way not to drive through water.

“As I was going through it was getting kind of deep, it's getting kind of deep.  Oh my gosh the car just stopped,” Karen Vanleer from Sudbury said.

Commuters using the MBTA weren't spared either.

Jam Murphy sent Boston 25 News a picture showing several inches of water in the lower busway at Harvard Station.

Lynn Powers of Somerville said she heard loud yelling outside her house, and when she looked out the window she saw the neighbors tubing down a flooded road.

“When it rains really hard here we’re on a street corner that tends to turn into white water rapids basically. It gets up to the height of bumpers or so, on parked cars. So a couple guys pulled pool floaties out of the house and were sort of tubing down the street,” she said.

The flooded street in Somerville only lasted about 10 minutes, but Powers said the neighbors took advantage while the could.

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