900 South End Residents Without Power on New Year's Eve
NSTAR and the City of Boston are reporting a power outage in the South End until 2 p.m. on New Year's Eve.
5 p.m. update: Several hundred South End residents still remain without power. NSTAR says power will be restored to them by 6 p.m. 12:45 p.m update: Most of those without power have had it restored, according to the city of Boston, although some residents are still without power. Original article: More than 900 residents of the South End were suddenly left without power on the morning and early afternoon of New Year's Eve. NSTAR and the City of Boston reported a power outage in the South End at approximately 9:45 a.m. on Dec. 31 of approximately 963 customers, concentrated in the Concord Square area of the South End. The outage was caused by an underground equipment failure in the area of West Newman Street and Rutland Street, according…
Sara Jacobi
12:15 pm on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Walter, completely agree about the map. When it was just the South End with the outage, you could actually track the number of customers without power, but then there was another power failure in Roslindale/Mattapan, and its usefulness suddenly disappeared because it was impossible to tell the South End numbers from the other Boston neighborhoods. I wish there was a better way to get neighborhood… more ›