When Tom Piscopo heard a loud boom Saturday as he worked at the Cookie Jar Pastry Shop on Shore Road, he wasn’t surprised or alarmed with the wind gusting as it was outside. At least not at first.

When Piscopo and his 10 employees heard a second loud boom, he looked out the window that faces the neighboring fire station and saw only black.

“Then water started gushing in,” said Piscopo, the owner of the pastry shop, who lives on Spear Avenue in South Portland with his wife, Donna, and their two kids.

The Cookie Jar was just one of the local casualties of a storm that brought heavy rain and winds to the state. Portland received 2.3 inches on Saturday, a record for Oct. 28, said Kirk Apffel, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray. At 4:40 p.m. on Saturday, wind gusts were recorded at 40 mph in Cape and at 5:30 p.m. gusts were recorded at 55 mph in Portland, he said.

Apffel said a large tree was reported laying across Route 77 in Cape on Saturday at about 4 p.m. Downed trees and wind damage were reported across the state.

Piscopo experienced the weather first hand. When the roof blew off, Piscopo said water was rushing in from various sections of the building, covering all the exposed lights, cabinets and food. It started flooding the building, he said. The crew shut down all the lights and started fighting the onslaught of water, trying to cover valuables, said Piscopo, but the torrent proved to be too much.

He had to evacuate the building. “Everyone was evacuated by 2 or 2:30 p.m.,” said Piscopo, “I was the last to go.”

He called a roofer and asked him to try to cover the building. The roofer was able to lash a series of tarps onto the top of the pastry shop in the middle of the storm, stemming further flooding.

Piscopo said the insurance company would not let him enter the building until Monday. So, on Oct. 30, he met with an insurance adjuster. He said after taking an inventory, just about everything was lost.

All the food is lost, the electronics, the lighting and some of the cabinets, he said. But it looks like there is a silver lining. Piscopo said the insurance company has been very helpful, and local contractors are already at work inside.

“I’m looking forward to being in business by Thanksgiving,” said Piscopo. He said he will be excited when everything is up and running as good as new, which he believes should be in about a month.