About 100,000 New Hampshire electric customers were out of power at 8 a.m. and the list was climbing as heavy snow was falling across most of New Hampshire, Thursday during the start of a Nor'easter.
Saying this will require a "multi-day response" to restore power to some 170,000 customers without power, utility crews were calling for help from afar to help them fix the power lines now down across the state from storm damage, while some were digging out from more than a foot of snow, which continued to fall at 4 p.m.
A major snowstorm Saturday dumped more than two feet of snow in the northern half of the state while leaving thousands without power from downed trees in a more wet band of snow and rain from Alton, to Dunbarton to Sharon. As of 3 p.m. Sunday, Eversource was reporting about 42,000 of its customers or 5 percent without power and were warning of a multi-day response in some cases. New Hampshire Electric Cooperative was reporting about 3,800 without power at the same hour, or about 5 percent.
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PLYMOUTH — The New Hampshire Electric Cooperative board of directors approved rates this week that, combined with the cooperative’s strategy and flexibility in purchasing power, will result in an overall