Over 400,000 New Englanders remained without power early Friday morning as a spring nor'easter brought snow, rain and heavy winds to the region overnight.
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported over 6,600 customers still without power just after 12 a.m. Friday, down several thousand from a few hours earlier. Here's a look at the breakdown across the state:
WATCH ANYTIME FOR FREE
 |
Stream NBC10 Boston news for free, 24/7, wherever you are. |
More than 117,000 customers remain without power to the north in New Hampshire, and more than 290,000 customers were in the dark in Maine.
Get updates on what's happening in Boston to your inbox. Sign up for our News Headlines newsletter.
New Hampshire officials said they activated the State Emergency Operations Center at enhanced monitoring status at 8 a.m. to support local communities in need of assistance.
“If you lose power, keep you and your family safe,” Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Robert Buxton said in a statement. “Practice power outage safety. Never run a generator indoors. If you come across downed wires, stay away and call 911. If you haven’t lost power yet, take time to prepare you and your family for a possible outage as the storm continues.”
Central Maine Power said in an update on its website around 11:30 a.m. that the storm created "near-blizzard conditions," making service restoration efforts hazardous across the state.
"Given the scale of damage we are seeing, at this time we do anticipate this to be a multiple-day restoration effort, lasting into early next week for some customers in hardest hit areas."
In Vermont, over 15,000 customers were still without power early Friday morning. A few dozen remained without power in Connecticut, and the lights were back on across Rhode Island.
