New Hampshire
21,000 Granite Staters Without Power Due To Blustery Winds
CONCORD, NH — Leap Day 2024 started off with a bang in New Hampshire as dropping temperatures and strong wind, with gusts as high as 50 mph, knocked out power to tens of thousands.
Outages were being reported by Eversource, the state’s largest utility, as well as Unitil and the New Hampshire Electric Co-Op.
Eversource reported more than 10,000 customers without power, including significant outages in Barnstead, Loudon, Hooksett, and New Boston, as well as smaller outages in Rye, Nashua, Hollis, Milford, North Hampton, Concord, Weare, Brookline, Dunbarton, Amherst, and Portsmouth. The company does not report restoration times.
At just after 12:30 a.m., more than 1,600 Concord and Epsom residents lost power. More minor outages, about 350, were reported in Unitil communities on the Seacoast, including Atkinson, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, and Kingston, were reported by the company.
Restoration times on the Seacoast range from 3 to 7 a.m., while the company reported restoration times for Concord and Epsom between 3 to 5 a.m.
The NHEC reported nearly 9,000 customers without power, including major outages in Sandown, Raymond, Barnstead, Chester, Sunapee, and other Upper Valley and Lakes Region communities. The company does not report restoration times.
Liberty Utilities was not reporting any outages.
Scattered trees, limbs, and wires were down all around the capital region, according to scanner chatter, with fire dispatch reporting alarm activations, too.
The National Weather Service said a wind advisory was in effect through 3 p.m. on Thursday.
The New Hampshire Patch network will update this post later this morning.
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Schultz said she “highly respects” Aspell, too, but there was a “dissonance between reality” when eyeing what the public and city employees were earning.
Ward 6 City Council Aislinn Kalob, too, would not be voting for the increase, saying it had been “heavily on my mind since we’ve had our nonpublic sessions,” which lasted about six hours of work. She appreciated Kretovic clearly outlining the job of city manager. But people were frustrated with the city manager, and she saw that in the comments in online forums.
“I do feel, after really digging into this, and learning about his job,” she said, “and thinking toward the future when, eventually, at some point, somebody new will be sitting in that seat, we are the ones who direct policy and he is the one that implements it… there is anger out there that should be directed more toward us.”
Kalob said, too, a room full of firefighters, upset about their contract, also made voting for the wage increase something she could not consider.
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