Severe conditions were predicted as a possibility across portions of New England and Canada, where the storm is projected to make landfall.
Storm Lee hurtled across the Atlantic on Saturday, threatening millions of people in coastal New England and eastern Canada with hurricane-force winds, dangerous surf and torrential rains.
Hurricane watches were in effect for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, while a tropical storm warning stretched from Westport, Massachusetts, to Nova Scotia. Peak gusts are projected to be 70 mph on the coast in eastern Maine, but there will be gusts up to 50 mph across a swath more than 400 miles wide, from Maine's Moosehead Lake eastward all the way into the ocean, he said.Cruise ships found refuge at berths in Portland, while lobstermen in Bar Harbor, Maine, and elsewhere pulled their costly traps from the water and hauled their boats inland, leaving some harbors looking like ghost towns on Friday.
But even as they prepared, New Englanders seemed largely unconcerned. In Maine, where people are accustomed to damaging winter nor'easters, some brushed aside the coming Lee as something akin to those storms, only without the snow.
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