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Utilities trimmed the number of powerless Bay Staters to about 25,000 today. That's down from 500,000 on Sunday. People are frustrated, obviously, with National Grid or NSTAR for their response to Hurricane Irene. Attorney General Martha Coakley wrote to both companies for an explanation and legislators want answers, too, and punishment.
As of about 6:30 p.m. tonight, 112,000 Massachusetts electric customers were still without power. There are 83,000 National Grid clients in the dark, mostly in the Attleboro and Scituate areas, along with 29,000 NSTAR customers in South Shore, Cape Cod, and the Metro West towns. National Grid's website has estimates for every city or town with outages.
Massachusetts and other New England states are in various stages of recovery from Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene. People without power, now estimated at 180,000 by MEMA, are frustrated. We felt the same until power was restored to us. This morning, National Grid reported 160,000 customers without power today, along with 84,000 NSTAR clients.
State Police are looking into the history of the National Grid truck involved in last week's fatal accident on I-495 in Southboro. Xjaoyun Jiang, of Westford, died when a backhoe the truck was carrying fell off its trailer onto the minivan she was in.
Three people were hurt and a fourth died on I-495 in Southborough when a front-end loader fell off a trailer being dragged by a National Grid truck. [WCVB] The British government is considering hiring former Boston Police chief William Bratton as an adviser to help Prime Minister David Cameron deal with a rash of violent looting and rioting in England that led to the arrest of 1,700 people. The shooting death of a man in a poor neighborhood sparked the riots. [WBZ]Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
It's not just "like" a heat wave, it is a heat wave. After a couple of 90-degree days already - according to Bostonist's thermometer - there are possibly three more coming. On Thursday and Friday, most forecasts are calling for temperatures closing in on 100 degrees.
Cities and towns are reacting and beginning to clean up after Wednesday's tornadoes devastated Central and Western Massachusetts. In the aftermath of the storm, stories about the victims who died are emerging. A Springfield woman died after putting "her 15-year-old daughter in the tub of their Union Street home and (laying) on top of her." An ongoing issue is the lack of electricity. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
On Thursday, Patriots coach Bill Belichick visited the Franciscan Hospital for Children. Cambridge-based Zipcar's first quarterly earnings report shows significant growth and growing losses. Zipcar recently held an IPO. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Attorney General Martha Coakley is working with National Grid on a settlemnt over the power outages caused by the December blizzard. A fisherman spotted a great white shark off the coast off Martha's Vineyard. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Our winter of wacky weather has now turned to lightning and wind, after snow and cold and hot temperatures. The wind caused almost 15,000 homes in Massachusetts to have no electricity around noon today. Two JetBlue planes headed to Logan Airport from Tampa and Baltimore were struck by lightning Friday. Both flights landed without incident.
Channel 5 calls our current storm "menacing" and says it will last for two days. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
According to the Globe, a high of 100,000 Bay Staters had lost power in today's storm.
Attorney General Martha Coakley's office filed a petition with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities to investigate National Grid's response to the blizzard on Sunday. The DPU plans to review the company's "overall emergency response" as thousands were without power for 36 hours.
A day after the Blizzard of 2010, two Massachusetts towns are coping with its aftermath. Scituate still faces power outages around town. Town officials report that a sea wall was damaged, along with damage to countless homes. Selectman John Danehey said the town needs state or federal aid to cover millons in estimated damages. In Norwell, the town is irate over National Grid's handling of power outages. Mount Blue Street was without power for 50 hours. As of this morning, 1,500 Norwell residents lacked power. http://www.patriotledger.com/topstories/x1547454897/Norwell-opens-shelter-for-residents-without-electricity
- The Kennedy family gathered at the Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville for a Mass to mark the one-year anniversary of his death. [Boston Globe]
- People are talking about Ted Kennedy a year after he died. Senator Scott Brown commented on Kennedy's service to Massachusetts. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]
- Jon Keller tells us how to properly remember Ted Kennedy. [WBZ]
- Massachusetts' Revenue Commissioner says the recent sales tax increase has worked, and is saving the Bay state from larger deficits. [Boston Herald]
- First Premier Bank is actually offering a credit card with an interest rate of 79.9%. It's apparently legal. [AP via Google]
- State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill and the executive director of the Massachusetts State Lottery, Mark J. Cavanagh, have amassed "unusually high" legal expenses while fighting a lawsuit alleging they exchanged campaign contributions for state contracts. [Boston Globe]
Rhode Island is a nice, plucky state. Bostonist loves to have the Ocean State in our neighborhood. It beats having Florida's panhandle on the southern border. But, recent headlines emanating from Rhode Island have resulted in a resounding "HUH?" from this Bostonist. Rhode Island is having an identity crisis and it's time for an intervention.
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