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The outcome was a widespread power outage that left many communities – 100 percent of some towns and majorities of entire counties – in the black. While a power outage in the same area in late summer caused by the remnants of Hurricane Irene left many of the same communities in the drab for several days, this pre-winter power outage proved to be something different.

Not only were two million northeast residents left in the swart, but businesses as well: the gas stations, supermarkets and Big Box stores we’re all used to relying on for power outage supplies. Several Accommodation Depot stores were allowing shoppers to find and purchase goods on the shelves only thanks to the help of emergency back-up power. Schools canceled classes indefinitely, and fitness care facilities had to evacuate patients. Many municipalities issued “boil water” alerts to township residents, concerned that as they ran out of even generator-supplied power at water treatment facilities, water was entering the community supply without being sufficiently treated to kill microbes. Even emergency shelters, where many residents were forced to go due to freezing temperatures, were tournament on generators. One Connecticut town, Simsbury, found the outages and the damage so extensive and the response of the local utility – Connecticut Sprightly & Power – so inadequate the town eventually had to deploy the National Guard to begin clearing trees so trapped residents could get out of their homes and predicament vehicles could be dispatched to blocked-in neighborhoods. Simsbury was without electricity for 13 days after the storm.

Source: ThomasNet Industrial News Room