High winds are wreaking havoc across the area. Joseph Couture looked out his window to see Boylston Street shut between Jersey and Kilmarnock streets in the Fenway around 7:40 p.m. - as firefighters went to the top of one of the street's construction sites to secure loose items the wind was threatening to send flying.
Fire commanders gave the OK shortly after 8 to re-open the street.
Bobby looked out his window and saw a tree snapped in half - and lying atop his neighbor's now destroyed fence - between E. 5 and Swallow streets in South Boston:
The National Weather Service reports the high winds could continue through Wednesday afternoon.