Trees were blown down. Electrical poles were snapped. And Christmas decorations went flying off lawns.

All thanks to Friday’s intense storms, which generated wind gusts as strong as 63 mph at the High Point Monument in Sussex County, 60 mph at Teterboro Airport in Bergen County and 60 mph in Belleville in Essex County.

Those were among the highest gusts clocked across the Garden State, according to the National Weather Service and the Rutgers NJ Weather Network.

Fierce gusts also were whipping down in South Jersey and along the Jersey Shore, and triggered more than 40,000 power outages across the state Friday afternoon and Friday evening.

Here’s a look at the highest wind gusts reported in each of New Jersey’s 21 counties on Friday:

Atlantic County

• 52 mph at Atlantic City International Airport
• 51 mph in Forsythe
• 48 mph at Atlantic City Marina
• 47 mph in Brigantine
• 45 mph in Pleasantville
• 44 mph in Pleasantville Point

Bergen County

• 56 mph at Teterboro Airport
• 47 mph in Lyndhurst

Burlington County

• 52 mph at McGuire AFB
• 48 mph at Coyle Field
• 47 mph at South Jersey Regional Airport
• 46 mph in Moorestown
• 41 mph in Tabernacle
• 40 mph in Silas Little
• 40 mph in Medford Village

Camden County

• 52 mph in Pennsauken
• 41 mph in Blue Anchor

Cape May County

• 50 mph in Avalon
• 49 mph in Cape May
• 49 mph in Cape May Harbor
• 46 mph in Wildwood
• 46 mph in Ocean City
• 42 mph in Woodbine
• 41 mph at Woodbine Municipal Airport
• 40 mph in North Wildwood

Cumberland County

• 48 mph in Fortescue
• 47 mph in Upper Deerfield
• 45 mph in Millville
• 44 mph in Greenwich
• 39 mph in Vineland

Essex County

• 60 mph in Belleville
• 59 mph at Newark Liberty Airport
• 45 mph in Caldwell

Gloucester County

• 60 mph in Logan Twp.
• 45 mph at Kingsway Regional H.S.
• 42 mph in West Deptford
• 41 mph in South Harrison

Hudson County

• 41 mph in Bayonne
• 40 mph in Jersey City 

Hunterdon County

• 47 mph in Pittstown
• 44 mph in Teetertown
• 40 mph in Milford

Mercer County

• 52 mph at Trenton Mercer Airport
• 48 mph in Hopewell Twp.
• 44 mph in Woodsville
• 43 mph in Ewing

Middlesex County

• 51 mph in Perth Amboy
• 47 mph in Carteret
• 47 mph in Deans (South Brunswick)
• 42 mph in East Brunswick
• 40 mph in New Brunswick

Monmouth County

• 56 mph in Sea Bright
• 56 mph in Keansburg
• 54 mph in Sea Girt
• 51 mph in Monmouth
• 46 mph in Cream Ridge
• 43 mph in Millstone Twp.
• 43 mph in Oceanport

Morris County

• 49 mph in Pompton Plains
• 46 mph in Morristown
• 41 mph at Pequannock Twp. High School
• 40 mph in Randolph

Ocean County

• 57 mph in Mantoloking
• 55 mph in Surf City
• 54 mph in Harvey Cedars
• 53 mph in Beach Haven
• 52 mph in Toms River
• 50 mph in North Beach Haven
• 49 mph in Berkeley Twp.
• 49 mph in Seaside Heights
• 49 mph at Rutgers
• 48 mph in Seaside Park
• 47 mph at Trixies Landing
• 46 mph in Tuckerton
• 46 mph in North Beach
• 43 mph in South Seaside Park

Passaic County

• 44 mph in Charlotteburg 
• 30 mph in Little Falls

Salem County

• 52 mph in Lower Alloways Creek
• 44 mph in Mannington Twp.

Somerset County

• 47 mph in Franklin Twp.
• 44 mph in Somerville
• 41 mph in Hillsborough
• 41 mph in Manville

Sussex County

• 63 mph at High Point Monument
• 50 mph in Hardyston Twp.
• 41 mph in Sussex

Union County

• 59 mph at Newark Liberty Airport
• 49 mph in Linden

Warren County

• 47 mph in Stewartsville
• 40 mph in Blairstown
• 39 mph in Hackettstown

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SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The Devils spent much of the night against the Utah Mammoth searching for answers on the power play, watching chances come and go, starting the game 0-for-4 with the man-advantage. That frustration finally broke when Stefan Noesen planted himself in the crease and finished in tight on Karel Vejmelka to give New Jersey the breakthrough they desperately needed.

“Great road win,” Brett Pesce said. “Didn’t have our best, myself included, felt like I hadn’t played in two months,” Brett Pesce said. “You know what, we got a win, we grinded it out, good teams find ways to get to two points.”

Noesen’s conversion provided a much-needed release on an ailing power play, and the timing made it even more significant. Not only did it snap the drought, but it also handed the Devils their first lead of the night against the Mammoth, one they would hang on to win 2-1 in Utah.

Not to be outdone, Jacob Markstrom was rock solid, allowing just a single goal to Utah, in the first period. As the Devils tried to find their footing in the game, with failed power play opportunities, and Utah pressing hard, Markstrom held the fort.

“This one is on him tonight,” head coach Sheldon Keefe said. “We don’t get the opportunity to hang around in the game and have big moments like we did in the third with the penalty kill and power play, if not for Marky and how held us in. We were outplayed for long stretches of the game, but it’s going to happen from time to time.”

The Devils had a gut-check moment at the end of the third period, when Dawson Mercer took a penalty in the dying minutes of the game and the Mammoth pulled their goalie for a 6-on-4. New Jersey came up with the clears and the blocks to hang on for the victory.

The Devils weren’t going to be denied the opportunity for a win, as Connor Brown explained:

“Marky deserved the win at that point, it was a bit scrambly, maybe a bit more scrambly than we would have liked but they got two extra guys on the ice, so it was nice to gut one out.”

Utah opened the game scoring with a first-period power-play goal by Daniil But, before Connor Brown tied the game in the second period, his second goal in as many games and his third in four.

“I’m playing my brand of hockey,” Brown said. “I’m being empowered a little more, playing a little more minutes than typically have over the last couple of years and it’s leading into a little bit more confidence, little bit more plays, so just kind of running with it.”

The Devils have started to find some more stride in their game and are winning four of their last six, including two straight on the two-game road trip through Vegas and Utah.

A Piscataway man who works as a New Jersey Department of Corrections officer in the state’s prison for sex offenders has been charged with sexually assaulting two inmates.