Snow pummels parts of Northeast; thousands without power

BOSTON (AP) — Utility crews raced Saturday to revive energy to tens of 1000’s of consumers throughout New England and New York after a robust storm dumped 2 toes of snow in some locations.

Greater than 160,000 clients in New England had been at nighttime as of Saturday afternoon and one other 20,000 had been with out energy in New York as heavy snow introduced tree limbs onto energy traces, in line with poweroutage.us, which tracks outages throughout the nation.

Restoration efforts had been difficult by snow nonetheless falling in some locations, making journey harmful. Doug Foley, Eversource president of electrical operations in New Hampshire, stated snow-covered roads had been making it robust for employees to succeed in communities with a purpose to assess injury and make repairs.

“We’re nonetheless taking over system injury in components of the state the place heavy, moist snow continues to fall, and tons of of further crews are coming to New Hampshire to help our restoration effort,” Foley stated in an emailed assertion.

As of Saturday afternoon, Eversource had restored energy to almost 61,000 clients in New Hampshire because the starting of the storm, however one other 40,000 remained with out energy, in line with the utility.

Inexperienced Mountain Energy, which serves clients in Vermont, stated extra outages are potential there with temperatures not anticipated to heat up sufficient within the subsequent couple of days to soften the snow.

“Clearing downed bushes to get to outage areas has been gradual and tough,” Mike Burke, the utility firm’s vp of area operations, stated in a press release.

Greater than 2 toes of snow was recorded in components of Vermont and western New York and lots of communities throughout the area noticed greater than a foot of snow, according to the National Weather Service.

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