Storms Leave 350,000 From N.C. to Maine Without Electricity
More than 350,000 people from North Carolina to Maine were without electricity Sunday after a night of violent weather that included wind gusts of up to 81 m.p.h., thunderstorms and snow.
The stormy weather broke out along a cold front that pushed eastward through the region, followed by some of the arctic air that has dropped temperatures into the single digits across the Upper Midwest.
Wind gusting up to 60 m.p.h. in southern West Virginia ripped the roof off a mobile home; one woman inside suffered a broken leg. Wind gusted to 81 m.p.h. at Cambridge, Vt., and Boston.
The most widespread electrical outages Sunday were in Connecticut, where Northeast Utilities had about 99,700 customers still without power Sunday evening, company spokesman Emmanuel Forde said.
In Maine, Central Maine Power Co. said 70,000 customers still had no power Sunday.
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