NBC Nightly News (12/6, story 7, 0:35, Williams) reported Connecticut Light and Power said yesterday that by Friday, "they hope to reduce the number of homes without power in just that state to 300,000 still in the dark and cold...because of last Saturday's freak pre-Halloween snowstorm." NBC said it has been "an awful week for millions" throughout the Northeast, as "many of the same places that went without power for a week after Hurricane Irene. And now the same wires are getting strung up on the same wooden polls right next to big trees that will no doubt come down in the next storm."
Education authorities throughout the region "worried Thursday about having to shorten school vacations to make up for all the days students have missed because of power failures caused by last weekend's snowstorm, combined with days lost to Hurricane Irene at the start of the academic year," the AP (11/4) reports. According to the AP, many schools in the Northeast have been "closed this entire week as crews continue efforts to restore power to about 760,000 utility customers who remain in the dark in several states Thursday."
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