Some 230,000 homes and businesses across New Hampshire are without electricity as of 8 a.m., PSNH reports.
"While power outages are happening across the state, the worst hit areas include communities in the band across Southern NH: Keene, Peterborough, Hillsboro, Milford, Nashua, Manchester, Derry, Epping Portsmouth, and Rochester," PSNH states on its Web site.
"Early reports indicate that the total number of outages from this storm are unprecedented, having already surpassed the ice storm in January 1998, which left 55,000 customers without power at its peak," the company states
The utility has called out 190 extra line and tree-triming crews around the state, and has asked for help from its sister utilities in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and from Hydro-Quebec.
The outages are due mainly to tree limbs downed by ice, which in turn take down powerlines.
Though daylight helps the repair crews to work, rising winds may bring down more branches and cause yet more outages, the company warns.
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PSNH warns customers to prepare to do without power for several days, and to stay away from any downed lines.
- Andrew Wolfe
Source: nashuatelegraph.com
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