Wicked weather whipped through Wareham late last week and early this week, causing a man to get struck by lightning and damaging homes, downing wires, and mucking up waterways.

Gordon Goodwin, 67, was struck by lightning at the Multihull Source on Narrows Road shortly after 5 p.m. Monday.

Wareham Police reported he was "indirectly struck by lightning that apparently traveled through the ground."

Bob Gleason, owner of the Multihull Source, said he was sitting at his desk when he saw the lightning strike.

“I heard a loud bang and saw a big flash and [Goodwin] went down," Gleason said. "I thought he wouldn’t survive, [but] after a minute or two he stood right up."

Lightning struck the chain link fence Goodwin was reaching to lock, the bolt jumped from the fence to Goodwin, who was standing about a foot away, Gleason said.

Before falling to the ground, Goodwin described seeing the lightning enter his hands and saw a glow around his feet, according to Gleason.

Goodwin was conscious and alert when Wareham EMS arrived on-scene, according to police. He was transported to Tobey Hospital for evaluation and was released around 11p.m. that evening.

That Monday evening storm also caused a tree to come crashing down on a home. At approximately 6 p.m. Wareham firefighters responded to an Agawam Drive home where a tree had landed on the roof. The home was owned by summer residents and was unoccupied at the time of the incident, according to emergency reports.

Emergency officials responded to several other reports of trees and live wires down.

Monday’s storm was the most recent in a batch of wild weather to hit the region. On Wednesday, July 13 a downpour dumped more than 2 inches of rain on Wareham in less than an hour and a half, resulting in town-wide damage.

“It was a strange storm,” said Town Administrator Mark Andrews. “A lot of run-off of topsoil and various debris needed to be cleaned up."

Municipal Maintenance workers were working hard in the days following the storms to clear roadways and storm drains.

The clean-up was still underway Saturday when the Wareham Fire Department responded to a downed utility pole on Merchants Way just after 8 a.m.

Officials said the pole was either knocked down when a passing truck snagged low hanging wires caused by the storm or that the pole structurally damaged by Wednesday's heavy rain.

When firefighters arrived on-scene the pole was being held up by surrounding power lines, said Wareham Fire Department Captain Michael Dykas.

"I couldn’t believe it," Dykas said. "It could have been a lot worse."

The downed pole left Merchants Way without power for eight hours causing some businesses to shut down, Dykas said.

One caring customer donated a generator to the Jug Shop on Main Street, allowing the liquor store to stay open despite.

"It was a toss up if we would stay open... but [the generator] saved our ice and we could use our registers," said Jug Shop Assistant Manager Gary DePonte.

The damage was not contained to the roadways. The beaches were also impacted by the high amount of rainfall.

“We had some erosion from storm water run-off on some of the beaches,” explained Harbormaster Garry Buckminster.

The storm also caused the closure of several shellfishing areas deemed "rainfall management areas."

Broad Marsh in Wareham, Sunset Cove in Onset, and Miller Cove in Buttermilk Bay remain closed for shellfishing due to the high volume of rainfall, Buckminster said.

When rainfall totals more than 2 inches, those areas must close until the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries performs water quality tests to determine if the areas can reopen.

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