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As of late Wednesday, just over 2,200 customers were without power statewide, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency’s outage map.

Heavy rain and high winds, combined with saturated grounds from rainfall last week, caused trees across New England to topple over during Monday’s powerful storm.

The storm lashed New England with heavy rain and ferocious winds, claiming at least three lives in Massachusetts and Maine and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands.

A Waltham police officer died after being struck by a vehicle on Totten Pond Road Wednesday in a crash that also injured at least three utility workers, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the case and National Grid.

Mayor Dean Mazzarella said “many” city-owned buildings lost electricity as well, turning to generators “with limited capacity.”

Gas leaks are repaired faster in wealthy suburbs than in dense urban areas. "You have people being treated differently," said Marcos Luna, a geography

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90 views Source:  Eagle-Tribune Mar. 4—Hundreds of homes across Haverhill — in both urban neighborhoods and rural areas — lost power Tuesday due to a windstorm, and some residents had to endure a bitterly cold night before electricity was restored the next day. Urban areas of the city such as the Acre and rural areas like the Chadwick Pond neighborhood were left without power after strong winds dropped tree limbs onto wires, National Grid company officials said. Power was restored to man...