Public schools in Andover and North Andover were closed Monday because of storm damage.
It'll be a long road to recovery for some in Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts, where Friday's severe weather left behind some significant damage.
There still were over 2,000 outages in the two communities on Monday morning, with National Grid having already restored service to tens of thousands of homes in the state.
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Andover Public Schools announced on Sunday evening that the district's schools would be closed Monday amid the outages and clean up process. North Andover Public Schools made the same decision to close down for Monday.
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Cleanup efforts continued on Monday, as National Grid employees and contractors worked on recovery following Friday's powerful weather. All outages were expected to be restored on Monday.
The storms swept through the area, uprooting trees, downing power lines and breaking utility poles.
"We have been [here] for 49 years and have never seen this much devastation," Steve Cashmare said. "Hail was coming down, close to golf ball-sized hail."
"We heard all these booms, we saw the rain and then you look outside and this is what happened, this is nuts," Lynn Kennedy said.
The scale of the damage surprised even National Grid.
"It was a lot," spokesman John Lamontagne said.
Leaders said they would be reassessing Monday to make a determination about school on Tuesday.
