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Millions of people are under storm watches and warnings as Hurricane Lee churns towards shore, bearing down on New England and eastern Canada with heavy winds, high seas and rain
BAR HARBOR, Maine -- Fishermen removed lobster traps from the water and residents hauled hundreds of boats ashore -- leaving some harbors looking like ghost towns -- while utility workers from as far away as Tennessee began taking up positions Friday ahead of Hurricane Lee's heavy winds, high seas and rain spanning hundreds of miles of land and sea.
Lee is hurtling toward coastal New England and eastern Canada as a storm still capable of producing hurricane-force winds and dangerous surf and dropping torrential rains on millions of people.
Hurricane Lee is projected to be more than 400 miles wide with tropical-storm-force winds when it reaches land, creating worries of power outages in Maine, the nation's most heavily forested state, where the ground is saturated and trees are weakened from heavy summer rains.
Millions of people are under storm watches and warnings as Hurricane Lee has been downgraded to Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee