High winds are in the forecast until late afternoon Thursday.
EASTHAMPTON -- High winds took down trees Thanksgiving morning, leaving some Western Massachusetts Electric Co. customers without power here and in other Pioneer Valley communities.
Company spokeswoman Janine Saunders said power was restored to 413 Easthampton customers around 10:15 a.m. The outage was caused by a tree that fell on Line Street.
Fallen trees -- the leading cause of power outages, Saunders said -- also caused blackouts in Deerfield, Greenfield and Leverett.
In Deerfield, crews have been at work since about 6:30 a.m. after a falling tree snapped a utility pole. The outage left 5 customers in that town and 178 in neighboring Greenfield without electricity. Saunders said the estimated restoration time is 12:30 p.m.
By 10:45 a.m., the company's outage map was showing that power had been restored to all but one of the Greenfield customers.
An outage in Leverett was reported just before 10:30 a.m., affecting 27 customers. An estimate for restoration there was not immediately available.
High winds are in the forecast until late afternoon Thursday. "Wind speeds of 15-25 m.p.h. will make it feel like it's in the teens through midday," CBS 3 meteorologist Nick Morganelli writes in his Thanksgiving forecast. "The wind will become less gusty by evening."
