Isaias, which barreled through much of New England on Tuesday, brought wind gusts as high as 63 miles per hour to Massachusetts and caused notable damages in numerous communities across the commonwealth, uprooting trees and knocking power lines down onto roads.
As of just after 8 a.m. on Thursday, 41,768 households in the state were without electricity, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency’s online map, which updates data from the state’s four electrical companies every 15 to 30 minutes.
On Tuesday, more than 250,000 residents and businesses had no power, and by Wednesday nearly 138,000 households were without electricity, the majority of which were in Western and Central Massachusetts.
Some communities, like Holland and Wales in Hampden County, saw 100% of their customers lose power over the course of the tropical storm Tuesday, according to MEMA.
The majority of the households in those two Pioneer Valley towns still had no electricity Thursday morning, MEMA’s online map showed. In Holland, roughly 82% of the community’s customers were without power, and in Wales, the estimated number was as high as 91%.
Hampden and Worcester counties continued to report the highest number of electrical outages Thursday at 23,699 and 9,497 respectively.
The city of Springfield, which was seeing the largest number of power losses Wednesday out of any Massachusetts community, was still reporting the most outages in the state Thursday.
Roughly 6% of the households in the city, around 3,930 customers, were without power, according to MEMA.
Tropical Storm Isaias hit the Springfield area around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, blowing trees down onto homes and cars in the city and surrounding communities.
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno issued an emergency declaration on Wednesday in response to the widespread outages and a 36-inch water main break on East Columbus Avenue and York Street.
“Many of us are not only out of power but out of water. There was no water this morning. [The water] is starting to come back across [the city] so an emergency declaration has been declared by myself very early this morning,” Sarno said at a press conference Wednesday.
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