Photos by Lisa Aciukewicz (16 photos)
Vehicles drive down Massachusetts Ave. past ice, trees, and downed power lines last Friday after Thursday night’s ice storm left more than 140,000 households in Worcester County without power at the height of the outages—including more than 1,500 homes in Harvard.
The Hays family discovers the cause of their power outage on Depot Road Friday morning.
A fence is laden with ice on Mill Road.
A white pine comes to its end in the town center cemetery.
The Harrod’s mailbox is one of the few things left intact on the little common on Fairbank Street.
Barbara Kemp's house on Blanchard Road narrowly escaped damage from a fallen tree.
This tree at a Mass Ave home used to be standing tall.
Ice and tree limbs cover the Common in front of the Unitarian Universalist Church.
A car drives under one of many damaged telephone poles in town, this one on Stow Road.
A pine tree snapped off at the base stands next to its stronger siblings.
A lineman works to restore power to Massachusetts Avenue.
Electrical workers came in from states as far as Michigan and Virginia. (Courtesy photo)
A transformer dangles a few feet off Bolton Road after the pole it was on snapped in two.
Harvard firefighters work to clear trees on Littleton Road. (Courtesy photo by Charles Kronauer)
Can you hear me now?