Over 130,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts are still without power Tuesday morning as a result of Monday’s storm, which brought high winds and heavy rain to the state.
By 7:15 a.m., nearly 134,000 Massachusetts homes and businesses were still dark, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). The continued outages are concentrated around the South Shore, with Plymouth, Norfolk and Bristol Counties being the worst affected, but there were also major continued outages in Middlesex, Essex, Suffolk and southern Worcester County.
Over 130,000 customers in Massachusetts were still without power Tuesday morning as a result of Monday’s storm.Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency
The worst outages Tuesday morning were in Scituate, where over 8,600 customers, or 92% of homes and businesses, were still without power, and in Millis, where nearly 3,800 customers, or 92% of homes and businesses, were still dark.
Some schools were also closed Tuesday morning as a result of the power outages.
More than 285,000 customers were without power as a result of the storm on Monday, amid record-breaking winds that reached 90 mph in some places. But even after workers spent hours repairing power lines, over 200,000 homes and businesses were still dark Monday night.
