Arlington To Replace American Flag Damaged In Storm

ARLINGTON, MA — Stormy weather that whipped through the region last week damaged the American flag that usually flies over Arlington’s Town Hall, officials said on Wednesday.

A new flag, according to the Arlington Department of Veterans Services, is now on the way.

Much of the northeast braced on Thursday and Friday of last week for the effects of a massive winter storm that had already swept across a large swath of the U.S.

While bringing deadly blizzard conditions to places such as Buffalo, New York, the system was primarily a rainy and windy one in Greater Boston.

Close to Arlington, one unofficial National Weather Service rainfall measurement showed 2.15 inches of total rain in Winchester on Friday.

A Somerville measurement picked up 1.37 inches while a measurement in Woburn showed 1.98 inches.

Winds howled in several places, with widespread wind gusts above 35-miles-per hour documented. A 56 mile-per-hour gust near Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield registered as the fastest such gust in Middlesex County during the storm, according to the National Weather Service.

Beyond Arlington's flag damage, bad weather knocked out power in communities throughout the region as gusts knocked down trees, tree branches and some utility infrastructure.