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JAY — Apparently, it was Jay’s time.

While scattered storms were reported across the region Thursday, no city or town got it quite like Jay did.

Trees were blown down on power lines, pea-sized hail was reported and on Route 140 and part of a roof blew off a mobile home, leaving a family homeless. No one was hurt when wind snatched the roof shortly after 3 p.m.

“I’m so glad they weren’t home when it happened,” said Melissa Burnham, whose sister Jasmine got home with her children just after it happened. “It just ripped half the roof right off the trailer.”

Jasmine and her three children, 8, 6 and 2 years old, were being assisted later in the day by the American Red Cross.

“They’re going to stay in a motel for a few days,” Burnham said. “The trailer is definitely an electrical hazard right now.”

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Trees were reported down in various parts of Jay, including East Jay and Riley roads, as well as in the area of Warner Hill Road. In nearby towns? Not so much.

“I live 20 minutes away and we didn’t get hardly anything,” Burnham said. “Then when I got into Jay, I started seeing trees down all over the place.”

Central Maine Power reported just over 1,000 customers without power by 4:30 p.m., the bulk of the outages in Franklin County.

Also hard-hit by the storm was Waterville, where streets flooded, trees toppled and marble-sized hail was reported. According to the Waterville Morning Sentinel, a group became stuck in an elevator at the Hathaway Creative Center on — where else? — Water Street.

The National Weather Service had issued severe weather warnings for parts of Maine and New Hampshire earlier in the day. At about 5 p.m., they reported that the storms had passed for the remainder of the day.

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