A map of power outages in Western Massachusetts, as of 7:00 a.m. Wednesday.
Click "click to interact." Then, scroll over a city / town to show the number of outages. Use the drop-down menu at left to toggle among total customers, customers without power, and percent of customers without power.
The data set shown above was compiled from the outage maps available on the sites of Western Massachusetts Electric Company and National Grid shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday.
National Grid anticipates that power will be restored in Holland by 12:00 p.m. today and in Monson by 12:45 p.m. The company has provided no estimates yet for Wilbraham, Hampden and East Longmeadow -- status in those communities is listed as "assessing condition".
Among the communities not included on the map are Chicopee and Holyoke. Offices for Chicopee Electric Light and Holyoke Gas and Electric have not yet opened for the day, so calls to both were unanswered.
On Tuesday evening, Chicopee Mayor Michael Bissonnette provided this update via Facebook:
Power outage in Fairview/Prospect/Westover area will continue until afternoon at earliest. Massive damage to wires and transformers due to downed trees. Some homes damaged by trees but no injuries reported so far. Crews from as far as Braintree in to assist CEL with restoring power. DPW/Forestry doing great job but we have lost over 200 trees not counting state park on Burnett Rd.
Robert Rizzuto's overnight update on power outages is available here.
