Construction material blown about like paper; trees snapped like matchsticks

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.