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After serious snowfall and high winds battered the region, more than 100,000 Massachusetts residents were still without power Wednesday evening.
As of 8:45 p.m., just over 100,000 Massachusetts electrical customers were without power, down from around 160,000 without power Wednesday morning. Rhode Island had around 100 customers without electricity Wednesday evening after starting the day with around 3,000 households without power. All lost power in New Hampshire has been restored, according to data shared by utility companies.
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Cape Cod and the Islands were especially hard-hit by power outages due to an “intense snow/wind blitz” and wind speeds up to over 70 mph, multiple meteorologists reported. On the Cape, Provincetown, Wellfleet, and Eastham were still completely without power Wednesday night, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
Full power restorations on the Cape may take until the end of Friday night, according to Eversource. The company estimated in a Wednesday afternoon update that 26 towns will likely wait until Thursday or Friday to have their electricity restored.
Half of those towns still have more than 25 percent of customers without electricity, according to MEMA. They include Barnstable, Brewster, Chatham, Duxbury, Eastham, Falmouth, Harwich, Marion, Orleans, Plymouth, Provincetown, Truro, and Wellfleet.
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