UPDATE: 9:39 p.m. Power has been restored to parts of Allenstown, which is now 36 percent without power. Power remains out in more than 60 percent of Epsom and more than 40 percent of Pembroke.
UPDATE: 8:33 p.m. Heavy, wet snow, as well as downed limbs and trees are causing problems for PSNH working on lines in different parts of New Hampshire. At this hour, the number of customers without power has risen to more than 5,000. Other cities and towns without power include Chesterfield, Derry, Durham, Keene, Nashua, and Rochester.
UPDATE: 6:01 p.m. PSNH is reporting it will be around 8 p.m. when power is restored.
UPDATE: 5:40 p.m. PSNH is advising that they hope to have some power restored by 6:30 p.m. in Allenstown and Pembroke.
Below is the original post:
A car accident on Route 3 has caused an outage for Public Service of New Hampshire customers, according to the company.
At around 4:30 p.m., nearly all of Allenstown, more than 1,700 customers, were without power. About two-thirds of Epsom, 379 customers, were without power. Seven hundred customers in Hooksett were also without power. Nearly half of Pembroke was without power, more than 1,500 customers.
PSNH reported on Twitter that the cause of the outage was a car that struck a utility pole on Route 3.
So far, Unitil has reported no outages in Concord and only reported minor outages in the southeastern part of the state, about 45 households in Atkinson, Hampton, and Newton.
No more information is available at post time.
Concord NH Patch will update this post when more information becomes available.
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