Once a Category 5 hurricane, Lee was a weaker but still significant storm as it made its way toward Canada on Saturday. Coastal residents were on the alert.
People in Maine and Massachusetts, accustomed to powerful nor’easters if not hurricanes, dutifully prepared but appeared largely unfazed by the foul weather to come.
The mayor of Woburn, where hotels are housing 150 migrant families, said the state’s 40-year-old right-to-shelter law “was not meant to cover what we’re seeing now.”