See the damage from Friday’s thunderstorms, flash floods in Massachusetts

A series of thunderstorms that moved rapidly across Massachusetts on Friday battered the commonwealth, and they took no prisoners.

From Greenfield to Somerville, the storms swept across the state, dumping as much as 7 inches of rain on some areas, flooding basements and collapsing parts of roads. Downed electrical wires and trees, lightning strikes and even landslides were reported.

Heavy and sudden precipitation was the main source of the damage from the storms. The National Weather Service received reports of flash flooding in cities and towns throughout the commonwealth, including Ashfield, Ashland, Belmont, Billerica, Boston, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Chelsea, Conway, Deerfield, Dracut, Everett, Fitchburg, Gill, Holliston, Hubbardston, Lowell, Medford, Montague, Orange, Revere, Somerville, Watertown, Wellesley, Westford and Winthrop.

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Franklin County got hit particularly hard by the storms. The area saw some of the most significant precipitation in the state, with 7 inches, 5.41 inches and 4.65 inches of rainfall recorded in Conway, Montague and Greenfield respectively, according to the Weather Service.

In Deerfield, sections of Routes 5 and 116 were closed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation due to flooding around 3 p.m. Friday, and Massachusetts State Police were sent to the area to assist. Elsewhere in the town, roughly 14 feet of Lower Road collapsed. The Weather Service received a report that a car fell into the washed-out section of the street and the person inside was rescued.

North of Deerfield, in Greenfield, Route 2 between Adam and Main Roads was closed in both directions because of the heavy damage the storms inflicted on three parts of the roadway. MassDOT engineers were called to look at the issue.

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“The damage to the road on the Gill side is substantial,” the Greenfield Police Department said in a Facebook post. “That area, caused by a massive landslide, will not be fixed, but the lanes will be altered to allow traffic to flow until a more permanent solution can be found.”

In both Deerfield and Greenfield, crews were working Saturday to repair the parts of the roadways damaged by the storms. Authorities warned of traffic delays and road closures that could last days.

Western Massachusetts wasn’t the only target of the storms Friday. In Worcester County, a lightning strike damaged a home’s electrical system on Hillcrest Drive in Oxford. In Hubbardston, where a tornado watch was issued, cars also got stuck in serious flooding on Route 68 and elsewhere in the small town.

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“Please use caution throughout town as there are numerous locations that are currently flooding, including Williamsville Road,” the Hubbardston Fire Department said in a Facebook post shortly after 8 p.m. Friday. “More storms are approaching the area and could cause further flooding.”

Northeast of Hubbardston, in Fitchburg, both sides of Route 2 near Leominster were closed because of flooding, according to MassDOT. Electrical wires and trees were knocked down in East Brookfield as well, the Weather Service reported.

Eastern Massachusetts wasn’t spared either. The Wellesley Police Department posted a video to Twitter late Friday of a tree that was set ablaze after being struck by lightning. Parts of Route 9 in the Norfolk County town were also flooded.

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Cars were struck in street flooding under the Lawrence Street Bridge in Lowell, on Route 1 in Revere, near the McGrath Highway in Somerville and elsewhere throughout the region, according to the reports the Weather Service received.

In Everett, there was flooding near the Chelsea city line that left several cars stranded and trapped people inside their vehicles. Some had to be rescued, the Weather Service noted.