The Union Leader 11 months ago

Saturday's blog on the Ice Storm of '08

This blog will be updated regularly on Saturday. More details are available in Friday's lengthy storm blog. For additional coverage including stories from Saturday's print edition, click the links below. Full Article at The Union Leader

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  1. Out in the cold
    11 months ago

    With many state residents facing their second or third day without electricity and heat, and temperatures dropping, state and local officials yesterday urged people to find a warm place to stay for the next few days. Gov. Full Article at The Union Leader

  2. More than a million New England residents are waking up today after miserable nights without heat and electricity or bailing flooded basements as the region struggles to recover from a brutal ice storm that sent trees crashing across power lines and... Full Article at Boston Herald

  3. Crews work to clear roads in Washington, N.H.

    (CBS/AP) It's going to be a long, cold and dark weekend for a lot of people in the Northeast. A massive ice storm has knocked out power to more than a million homes and businesses in seven states. Full Article at CBS News

  4. ROCHESTER, N.H.—With state officials and power companies saying it might be a week before some New Hampshire residents get their power restored, hundreds of thousands of people spent Saturday figuring out how to keep warm. "I still don't have power. Full Article at Boston Globe

  5. Utility crews continue to repair damage to hundreds of power lines today as thousands of people still are without electricity in the aftermath of a severe ice storm that swept through the Hudson Valley Thursday night. Full Article at LoHud.com

  6. Icy New Hampshire
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    At the local diner this morning (VERY early) we were busy cooking unlimited numbers of meals: Breakfasts, donuts, danishes and endless commercial sized pots of hot coffee. All for the PSNH guys. Yesterday NH got covered in ice. Literally. Full Article at And Rightly So!

  7. BOSTON -- A winter storm pounded New England with pouring rain, sleet and ice, knocking out power to roughly 350,000 customers in Massachusetts, closing schools and roads and prompting Gov. Deval Patrick to declare a statewide state of emergency Friday. Full Article at Boston Channel.com

  8. Ice surrounds the branches of a tree after a storm in East Derry, N.H., Friday Dec. 12, 2008. Hundreds of thousands of residents in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont were without power Friday as an ice storm dropped trees and power lines all over the region.

    CONCORD, N.H.—As it got down into the teens and single digits in New Hampshire, people who lost power from a massive ice storm showed up at some shelters by the dozens. Full Article at Boston Globe

  9. Thousands of Vermonters went without power Friday and hundreds, if not thousands, will remain without electricity today and Sunday due to a storm that dumped a mixture of ice, sleet and snow over the southern part of the state. Full Article at Rutland Herald

  10. Felled branches lay on Brattle Street in Worcester yesterday after the ice storm. Governor Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts.

    Nearly a million homes and businesses in New England are facing a weekend without electricity after a rare combination of low pressure, moist air, and cold, powerful winds produced a punishing ice storm that swept through the region yesterday, felling... Full Article at Boston Globe

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