Superstorm Sandy: More than 7 million without power

Matt Moran, a trimmer with Townsend Tree Service, cuts a fallen tree limb from a power line on 19th Avenue that fell as a result of the strong winds from Hurricane Sandy, Monday, Oct., 29, 2012, in Sea Cliff, N.Y. / AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek

Last Updated 2:43 p.m. ET

More than 7.9 million utility customers across the Mid-Atlantic States and New England were without power Tuesday, after Superstorm Sandy made landfall with hurricane-force winds and torrential flooding.

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Connecticut

Connecticut Light & Power (which offers outage reports in both map and table formats) says more than 458,000 customers were without power.

Delaware and Maryland

Delmarva reports more than 42,000 customers lost power.

BGE reports more than 160,000 customers are still without power.

PEPCO had at least 11,000 customers without power.

More than 50,000 outages were reported by Mon Power and Potomac Edison.

Kentucky

LG&E and Duke Energy each report fewer than 100 customers offline.

Massachusetts

NStar reported more than 162,000 outages.

Additional outages were reported by Western Massachusetts Electric Co. (more than 9,000 customers) and Unitil (almost 500 customers).

National Grid says more than 210,000 customers had lost power.

Maine

Central Maine Power reports almost 59,000 customers without power. Bangor Hydro reports more than 600 customers affected.

Michigan

DTE reports about 110,000 customers without power. CMS reports about 3,900 customers are affected.

New Hampshire

Public Service of New Hampshire says more than 108,000 customers were without power. Unitil reports more than 83,000 customers lost power.

National Grid says about 11,600 customers are without power.

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New Jersey

Public Service Electric & Gas, which is tweeting outage information, says at least 1.4 million customers are offline. Jersey Central Power & Light, which publishes map of outages, is reporting more than 969,000 homes lost power. Atlantic City Electric has more than 184,000 customers without power.

New York

LILCO reports more than 942,000 customers on Long Island were without power. Con Edison reports more than 811,000 customers were without power in New York City and Westchester.

In upstate New York NYSEG reports more than 114,000 customers are affected. RG&E reports another 19,000 without power.

National Grid says nearly 16,000 customers are without service.

North Carolina

Duke Energy reports more than 500 customers lost power. Progress Energy reports about 250 customers lost power.

Ohio

First Energy reports more than 238,000 customers reported blackouts.

Additional outages have been reported by Duke Energy (about 20), DP&L (175), and South Central Power (75).

Pennsylvania

Peco in southeastern Pennsylvania was reporting more than 585,000 customers affected.

FirstEnergy was reporting more than 213,000 customers were without power.

PPL Electric Utilities was reporting about 376,000 customers without power. UGI says more than 14,000 customers are without power.

Rhode Island

National Grid says more than 163,000 customers had lost power.

South Carolina

Duke Energy reports almost 500 customers lost power. SCE&G reports 32 customers are without power.

Vermont

Green Mountain Power reports more than 7,200 customers affected.

Virginia

Dominion Virginia says more than 76,000 customers were without service.

[ammo17]

how is that N.A.F.T.A. working out for the country?we do not hear too much about that great trade agreement.

[-EmpireGeorge________-]

TimeToEvolve says:

I just hope Wall Street is completely destroyed. God is coming and is she pissed
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Attention everyone !! TimeToEvolve actually is hoping that the market, where all American companies trade their stock, he wished it gets destroyed!!!!!!......that means all the stocks and mutual funds Americans have in your retirement accounts, ALL publically traded American companies he wishes are completely destroyed.

If THAT isn't being anti-American, I don't know what is.

he thought wall street meant some fat-cat banker, when it was the market where all stocks are traded.....I wish I didn't have to share my country with people who wish we were destroyed.

[hypnotoad72]

How are they "American" companies when they offshore jobs?

If THAT isn't being anti-American, then you don't know what is.

Especially as they get taxpayer-funded welfare in return for offshoring, as we've told YOU time and time again.

[hypnotoad72]

One example, which I'm sure you've (not) read all of those times:

http://www.ontheissues.org/SenateVote/Party_2005-63.htm

[KevinsKandles]

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[ThisNameInUse]

Given that it's been 20 years of absolute denial by Republicans of the scientists' warnings to us about climate change that has made storms like Sandy more frequent and damaging, I don't think you want anyone from that party anywhere NEAR power in the next decade or so.

Not if you have kids. Or think humanity is a thing worth preserving.

[sjc_1]

This is why underground electric lines are a good idea. You can pay to keep putting them back up or you can pay to put them underground, which is much more cost effective and reliable.

[ThisNameInUse]

Europe figured this out in the 1950s. As with the metric system, it unfortunately takes us in the US a few decades longer to dip our fearful toe into the waters of modernity.

Unfortunately, we have these nutcase tea partiers, for whom any investment in infrastructure is an evil communist plot. If they had been around in the 1950s, Ike's interstate system would never have been built. According to them, the Magical Private Sector Fairy fulfills all of society's needs.

[mikesfilms]

Another whopper from Romney's scheme bag: LIE: There's no Global Warming. I'll undo everything Obama's done to protect the world. Never mind FRANKENSTORM.

[ThisNameInUse]

"I love coal"

"I'm not sure what causes climate change"

But he's sure where his bread is buttered: by the oil and coal lobbies who have bankrolled his campaign.

[maggiemae415]

I just want to watch what is on the news now about the hurricane. LIVE. All I get are pictures and clips and shows I can watch. What am I doing wrong. My cable is out, so the TV is out. I'm doing my best to try to become informed using the computer and getting very frustrated.

[-EmpireGeorge________-]

If you subsribe to a cable company, many of them have websites, go to that website, and you should be able to watch your TV shows, or movies on your computer.....Live TV shows, is more difficult, since those are on networks and not many of them, have on-demand services on the computer.....good luck.

[AmericaDying]

Nov. 4th thru the 6th is a three day fast and pray for Mitt Romney and the country. Christians unite under one banner Jehovah Nissi.

[KeepThinking]

I am praying to God every day that that those greedy, predatory liars Willard "Mitt" Romney and Paul Ryan will lose the election and our able, decent President and Vice President, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who have been working hard for all the American people, not just the richest 1%, will be re-elected. They certainly have my vote; and my family and friends say the same.

[hypnotoad72]

"Thalt shalt not lie"... Christians don't lie.

Romney also did a lot of other things - he's offshored jobs, he supports offshoring of jobs, but has the nerve to yell at students who invariably took on student loan debt, as investment, so they can further themselves and do the right things for this country.

So, let's pray for the citizens of this country.

[zia-2009]

Remember when Romney said he will get rid of FEMA??/
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/frankenstorm-bears-down-remember-what-mitt-

[flower753]

How dares he! FEMA encourages people to build in those areas that the rest are responsible for!
Trying last minute scare tactics? We know angel Obama who understands -after all he was a community organizer while Romney has horns on his head and right now laughing like a devil. Oh, i got confuse for a sec-it was Biden laughing like a devil about Benghazi.

[mssainsburys]

Yes. I remember also how Bush weakened the agency with a political appointee and funding cuts. then Katrina happened. What a disgrace.

[hypnotoad72]

Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan can tweet all the drivel she wants.

http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2012/10/29/14779269-lindsay-lohan-tweets-about-hurricane-confused-by-panic

*facepalm*