1.1 million still without power in Northeast after Philippe

By artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 7:31pm |

By Ralph Ellis & Emmanuella Grinberg @ CNN.com, Oct. 30, 6:59 pm

[....] The storm drenched the region over the weekend before racing into Canada early Monday. It left behind swollen rivers and downed trees that damaged roads, snarled traffic and left millions without power. By Monday evening, more than 1.1 million power customers were still without electricity, including 248,557 in Massachusetts and 137,900 in Rhode Island.

In Maine, which was especially hard hit, Gov. Paul LePage declared a state of emergency to give power companies more flexibility to make repairs. Central Maine Power said more than half of its customer base was without power Monday. By nightfall, 384,000 were still without power [....]

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