Unitil, Eversource Continuing to Work on Power Restoration

Update, 4:51 p.m. About 2,000 customers of Eversource and Unitil remain without power at just before 5 p.m. About 55 customers are still without power in Exeter, according to Unitil. Most of Eversource customers in Patch communities have power restored. A handful of customers in Portsmouth and Derry remain without power.

Update, 3:22 p.m. More than 2,700 in New Hampshire remain without power, according to Unitil and Eversource.

About 330 customers on the Seacoast are still without power including about 120 in Kingston, 55 in Exeter, and more than 80 in Stratham. Atkinson is reporting 56 customers without power. Outages are also still being reported in Bow, Danville, Epsom, Hampton, Plaistow, Seabrook, and South Hampton.

Eversource is reporting about 2,500 customers without power. About 400 in the Seacoast communities of Dover, Durham, Newington, Greenland, and Portsmouth are without power. About 300 are without power in Derry, Pelham, and Windham. Outages are also being reported in Deerfield, Goffstown, Hopkinton, New Boston, Northwood, and Tilton.

Update, 12:30 p.m. More than 4,000 customers around New Hampshire still remain without power. While some communities, like Amherst, Hollis, and Hudson have seen their power restored, others like Dunbarton have been added to the list. Nearly 1,700 in the town of Goffstown alone are now without power.

Update, 10:51 a.m. Electricity companies in New Hampshire are slowly restoring power to the central and southern part of the state.

According to outage map updates, nearly 400 Unitil customers, mostly in the Seacoast area, remain without power. Most of Hampton has been restore at this hour where more than 5,000 were without power earlier today.

In Danville, 170 are without power, along with 79 in Plaistow, 21 in Seabrook, 56 in South Hampton, and 35 in Stratham, along a handful of other homes in Exeter, Greenland, Hampton, and Sandown.

Eversource is reporting more than 3,700 customers without power including almost 900 in Laconia, more than 200 in Auburn, 166 in Portsmouth, more than 100 in Hudson, more than 90 in Londonderry, as well as other outages in Canterbury, Danbury, Derry, Gilford, Hollis, Sutton, and Windham.

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A number of communities around New Hampshire are without power this morning as strong winds blew threw the region last night as part of large swath of rain that continues to fall around the state.

The worst of the power outages are on the Seacoast where nearly 6,000 people lost power less than an hour agoin Hampton due to an uprooted tree. Nearly half the town is without power with Unitil reporting a restoration time of around 3 p.m. on June 28, 2015. Atkinson, Danville, Exeter, Greenland, Plaistow, Seabrook, South Hampton, and Stratham are also reporting minor outages.

In the southern part of New Hampshire, Eversource (formerly PSNH) is reporting small outages in a number of communities including more than 240 customers in Amherst and 344 customers in Hollis. About 90 customers are without power in Milford. Derry, Goffstown, Litchfield, Londonderry, and Manchester also have small outages.

In the central part of the state, more than 1,000 Eversource customers are collectively without power in Allenstown, Epsom, Pembroke, and Hooksett. About 300 customers are without power in Sutton and Warner.

NH Patch will update this post periodically as new outages are reported and power is restored.