Residents in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, woke up Monday morning to over a foot of snow in the driveway and no electricity in their homes.
"No estimate on what time it's coming back on," said one resident.
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At the height of Sunday's storm, power was wiped out for about 16,000 Massachusetts residents, according to National Grid. Roughly 3,000 were in Tewksbury.
"Twice I came out here and snowplowed the driveway. Did it once, came back in. I think the second time around it was even worse," said a resident.
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The power was back on Monday for most communities throughout the state -- though nearly 4,000 outages remained as of Monday afternoon.
In Haverhill, the town had a blockbuster snow day, with 18 inches falling, knocking out power for many early Sunday, and officials canceled school on Monday. A lot of students took the opportunity to hit the slopes at Ski Bradford.
“We have ski club after school but it was canceled because there’s no school so we decided to come anyway,” said Maddy Rodrigues, of Amesbury Middle School.
“I’m just happy I don’t get to see my teacher,” said Brodey Haigh, of Consentino Middle School.
The city deployed 140 pieces of equipment over the duration of the storm, which coincided with Ski Bradford’s opening day. Staff had spent weeks of trying to make snow, only to get washed out by the rain.
“We got all powder. We didn’t get wet snow here, unlike the Boston area, which had some heavy wet snow,” Ski Bradford Patrol Director Dennis Gauvin said. “We’re ready to go. Season’s here. This is what we’ve been waiting for.”
The storm came in waves Sunday night. National Grid employees told NBC10 Boston they would finish restoring power at one place that night and before long, more outages would surface.
In total, National Grid completed about 54,000 restorations, with about 5,500 left. They expect to be done by 3 p.m. Monday.
