Thousands of homes and businesses across Massachusetts are in the dark on Monday morning as a nasty fall nor’easter lashes the region.
As of 1:15 p.m., there were 6,159 outages, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency’s live tracker.
The majority of the outages were on Cape Cod and in Bristol, Plymouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk counties, where whipping winds threatened to down trees and utility lines.
Wind advisories are posted for Dukes, Nantucket, and Barnstable counties through 8 p.m…