Snow pummels parts of Northeast; thousands without power

BOSTON – Utility crews raced Saturday to restore power to tens of 1000’s of customers throughout New England and New York soon after a strong storm dumped 2 feet of snow in some destinations.

More than 160,000 consumers in New England were being in the dim as of the afternoon and a different 20,000 were being with no electric power in New York as significant snow introduced tree limbs on to power strains, in accordance to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages throughout the region.

Restoration endeavours were being challenging by snow continue to falling in some places, making vacation dangerous. Doug Foley, Eversource president of electrical operations in New Hampshire, reported snow-protected streets were being building it tough for personnel to arrive at communities in get to evaluate harm and make repairs.

“We are nevertheless having on program destruction in sections of the state wherever large, soaked snow carries on to tumble, and hundreds of added crews are coming to New Hampshire to help our restoration hard work,” Foley explained in an emailed assertion.

As of Saturday afternoon, Eversource experienced restored electric power to approximately 61,000 shoppers in New Hampshire since the commencing of the storm, but a different 40,000 remained devoid of electrical power, according to the utility.

Green Mountain Power, which serves customers in Vermont, said more outages were being doable there with temperatures not predicted to warm up ample in the upcoming pair of days to melt the snow.

“Clearing downed trees to get to outage destinations has been slow and tough,” Mike Burke, the utility company’s vice president of area functions, explained in a assertion.

Extra than 2 ft of snow was recorded in elements of Vermont and western New York, and numerous communities throughout the area saw a lot more than a foot, in accordance to the Nationwide Temperature Assistance.