Overview
- Saturday morning’s fast-moving storm produced widespread wind-driven damage that left roughly 18,800 Massachusetts customers and more than 18,200 New Hampshire customers without power as crews began assessments.
- New Hampshire utilities reported detailed outages with Eversource showing over 11,000 customers out, Unitil about 2,700 affected, and the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative about 4,100 affected.
- The National Weather Service issued high-wind warnings and cautioned that gusts near 65 mph could bring further tree failures and downed lines and slow repair work.
- Local police and fire departments reported numerous downed trees, broken utility poles and multiple road closures, and Manchester-Boston Regional Airport issued a weather warning in effect into the morning.
- The region’s tree-lined streets and above-ground distribution lines raise the risk of repeated outages after a mid-May storm, which means restoration times will depend on crew access to damaged poles and blocked roads.