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"I think there's no substitute for that kind of neighbor-to-neighbor assistance that New Hampshire is traditionally famous for," Lynch said.In Raymond, just about all of the town's 10,000 residents were in the dark following the storm.Fire chief Kevin Pratt said a shelter at the local middle school usually houses 25 people comfortably, but if the need's there, they'll accommodate. Erhard said her Parkinson's disease makes it difficult to get around her apartment and even cook, and aides who help her didn't show because of the storm.She was eager to get home Saturday and see her cats. Ice-covered trees cracked and fell on roads and cars.Temperatures dipped into the teens Fahrenheit Friday night and early Saturday in northern New England, forcing many people out of their homes and into shelters.New Hampshire Gov. "Work crews were struggling to help restore power to the estimated 350,000 Massachusetts customers who lost electricity in Friday's ice storm.
Canadians had never before endured a natural disaster like the ice storm of 1998. "The first night, your house doesn't get so cold, but the second night - it was 20 degrees last night - so who knows," said Sue Rogers, a nurse volunteer for the Great Bay chapter of the Red Cross.Greg Champlin of the state Office of Emergency Management also expected more people at shelters Saturday night.
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The kids go to school, the adults go to work and life pretty much continues as always. "All the motels have no electricity, and that's why I'm here," said Duke Straychan of Hampton, who came to stay overnight at Portsmouth High School. PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — It's been nearly 22 years since one of the iciest storms in U.S. history hit our region.
By Saturday afternoon, crews had restored power to 100,000 of them, said utility spokesman Patrick Stella.Outage updates from Central Hudson Gas & Electric, which had about 50,000 customers without power Friday, and NYSEG, which was reporting about 32,000 outages, were not immediately available. "Things are much better," said Carol Breen, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation. Watch the video above and take a look back at the storm … Burns says the goal is to bring that number down to 100,000 by day's end.She says utility crews from Michigan, New York, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are on their way to help with the effort.
"The ice storm compared with some of the Northeast's worst, especially in New Hampshire, where more than half the state - 400,000-plus homes and businesses - was without power. There were far fewer outages during the infamous Ice Storm of '98, when some residents spent more than a week in the dark. Five hundred Massachusetts Guard members were cleaning up debris and clearing access to downed power lines. The number of days an expectant mother was deprived of electricity during Quebec's Ice Storm (1998) predicts the epigenetic profile of her child, a new study finds.