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Thousands of Seacoast Residents Lose Power

No word yet on estimated restoration times.

Thousands of Seacoast residents are without power on Tuesday night, and the electric utilities said they aren't sure yet when service will be restored.

At about 9:45 p.m., Unitil reported about 1,200 customers—mostly in Hampton and Stratham—were without power. Those customers had power restored by 11 p.m.

At 11 p.m., Public Service of New Hampshire reported 5,027 customers were without power. Below is a breakdown by community:

  • Rye: 2,117
  • Portsmouth: 1,779
  • North Hampton: 741
  • Greenland: 122
PSNH was reporting updates on its Twitter feed and live outage map.

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