Crews work to repair wind damage across western Massachusetts

last night's Windstorm caused power outages and storm damage in several Hampshire and Franklin County locations and 22 news reporter Heath cowb is live in studio with a look at where the wind caused those problems yeah Alana Siara the winds really started picking up yesterday evening in some areas were hit a lot harder than others Wednesday night into Thursday a strong wind storm swept across New England and a day later those howling winds that shook the area overnight are now having their impact being felt it it was pretty violent it was good it was good storm according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management agency's outage map at the height of the storm more than 18,000 customers were without power and many of those weren't just dealing with the cold and dark they couldn't access certain roads all the roads going over to South ammer are closed especially Bay Road that's the main road right there can't get out here so I'm trying to find a way out to get my kid to school belter town was one of those areas especially hit hard along with other communities where a majority of households lost power like in Buckland shelburn and shutesbury it's rare for a storm with Just Wind to cause this much Havoc but not unheard of and once the wind speed reaches a certain threshold entire trees can be uprooted just like this one right here and that's something now being seen throughout all of Western Massachusetts especially when you get wind gusts you know over 30 mph you can start to see you know down trees down power lines and that's when you get some power issues and that's exactly what we saw last night and with Wednesday night's storm the region experienced more than it could handle West over Air Reserve Base reported a gust of 51 mph and Bradley International Airport right over the state line reported a gust of 57 mph now as of this afternoon most residents do have their power restored but there are still about a thousand homes in Western massachusett still in the dark