Central Mass. spared longterm power outages
Central Massachusetts had nearly no customers - only about a dozen in all - without power by mid-morning Wednesday following a storm in which 60,000 were reported without power at one point.
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported only very small amounts of outages in the towns of Rutland, Spencer, Berlin, West Brookfield, Sturbridge and Southbridge.
Nearly 20,000 were without power across the state, MEMA reported.
A majority of those outages are in Essex County, in the northeast corner of the state. Thousands were without power in Newburyport, Haverhill, Methuen, North Andover and Andover.
Worcester received 11.5 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.
The hardest-hit Massachusetts communities were in north central or western Massachusetts. Hubbardston received 16 inches and Williamstown got 19 inches, according to NWS.
The upstate New York town of Bridgewater, between Albany and Syracuse, got socked the hardest, with 41 inches. Many other upstate New York locations got more than two feet of snow.
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