CONWAY — Tropical Storm Isaias, the first tropical storm to hit the Granite State in nine years, turned deadly when a North Conway woman was killed by a large tree that crashed onto her second-floor apartment on Kearsarge Road on Tuesday night.
The storm, which barreled up from New York state and through Vermont north to Canada, left in its wake thousands of Granite Staters without power. It also closed several roads and even set a record for Mount Washington of the highest wind gust ever recorded in the month of August.
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