Thousands remain without power in Massachusetts days after damaging storm
SCITUATE – Approximately 20,000 customers are still without power Wednesday, two days after a rain and wind storm caused damage around Massachusetts and other parts of New England. More than 260,000 people lost power in the state on Monday.
As of 7 a.m. on Wednesday, about 14,000 National Grid customers and 7,000 Eversource customers are without power.
Duxbury, Pembroke, Halifax, Hanson, Hanover, Norwell, and Scituate were among the hardest-hit communities as outages reached 250,000 on Monday.
About 91% of Scituate had no power Tuesday morning, a total of around 8,600 customers. By Tuesday night, power was restored to most of the town.
Scituate town officials say it could be until Thursday for everything to completely return to normal.
"There's still a lot of work to do, but people will start to see some power restoration as the day goes on," Scituate Town Administrator Jim Boudreau said.
Scituate Public Schools will be in session on Wednesday.
Much of the South Shore outages are from storm damage that happened at an electrical substation in Hanover that provides power to the towns.
Monday's storm claimed the life of an 89-year-old Hanover man. A tree fell on his trailer and trapped him.