Gov. Charlie Baker says power outages in Massachusetts from the blizzard slamming the region are significantly less so far than what had been feared.

Heavy bands of snow are falling with some towns including Sandwich on Cape Cod and Oxford in central Massachusetts reporting more than a foot and a half of snow.

National Grid was reporting about 7,000 outages at 7 a.m., the vast majority on Nantucket. NStar also had about 7,000 mostly on the Cape and South Shore.

State emergency management agency director Kurt Schwartz says some flooding was reported at high tide early Tuesday. He said there were some evacuations, but ``not catastrophic life-threatening situations.''

The Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth was shut down because its main transmission lines went down, but officials said there was no public danger.

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