and having to hold on. we're lucky. it's just things that will get lost. >> reporter: storm conditions are expected to improve on saturday but the wind is still a factor, so is coastal flooding. near portland, maine, storm surge left the home teetering on the edge of the atlantic ocean. >> the plan is to lift it and move it back a little bit, i believe. but a lot of things have to happen before that happens. we're just trying to keep it from going anywhere. >> you feel bad for the people but that comes with having a house on the water. ocean wins, you lose. >> another issue is power outages. in watertown, massachusetts, high winds made power lines fall like dominos. >> we had traffic lights all over town affected by this grid. the first trouble, they isolated the area, cut the circuit off. wires over cars and it was a dangerous situation. >> one woman in brockton, massachusetts, said her son was lucky to be alive. he was sitting in the back of