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June 8, 2006

Most power has been restored

Down from a peak of nearly 8,000, National Grid this morning reports just two homes in Rhode Island and 173 households in Massachusetts remain without power.

National Grid spokeswoman Elise Del Barone said 10 of those Massachusetts homes are in Seekonk. The rest are scattered around its network in the state.

At 9 a.m., the two Rhode Island homes were in Bristol and Central Falls.

The worst of it was at 2 p.m. yesterday when about 6,000 Massachusetts households and 1,900 Rhode Island households were without power, Del Barone said. Throughout yesterday and last night, though, more than those peak numbers actually lost power.

By 9:30 p.m. last night, just 1,400 Massachusetts homes and 66 in Rhode Island still had no power. Technicians worked through the night to pull those numbers down, Del Barone said. Most of the outages were caused by downed tree branches on wires, she said.

In Rhode Island, Bristol was hit the worst, Del Barone said. At one time, 1,896 homes were without power there. In Johnston, 66 households lost power.

National Grid provides electricity to 3.3 million customers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and upstate New York, Del Barone said.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 9:18 AM | Permalink

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