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December 9, 2009
Wet snow causes outages
Thousands of residents Billerica, Dracut, Tewksbury, Andover and Methuen were without power for several hours as the heavy, wet snow took a toll on electrical wires according to National Grid. Power went out in the Kenwood section of Dracut shortly after 9:30 a.m., affecting 1,172 customers. In Tewksbury, 5,021 customers in the Shawsheen and River Road sections of town were without power. The outage in the River Road area extended into Andover while smaller outages were reported in Billerica and Methuen. The New Hampshire communities of Derry and Windham also experienced scattered outages.
The storm will be over by evening.
But in the end, expect about 1 to 3 inches or so of snow turning to a lot of slush in the immediate Lowell area when the rain cranks in this afternoon, forecasters said. Points West, like Pepperell and Townsend, already had 3 inches of snow by 8:30 a.m.
Posted by The Sun Newsroom at December 9, 2009 11:01 AM
