Hundreds of thousands of Mass. customers without power as nor’easter hits New England

Hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts customers are without power as a Monday nor’easter brings heavy wet snow and strong winds to the area.

As of 11 p.m., more than 272,000 customers were without power, according to PowerOutage.com.

Of the outages, more than 155,000 were in Barnstable County. Plymouth County also had over 70,000 outages.

National Gird's Chris Laird joins Boston 25 to provide update on outages throughout Mass.

Chris Laird, spokesperson for National Grid, said that it is “all hands on deck,” with 400 line crews pre-staged in high-impact regions, including Southeastern Massachusetts, coastal communities, and the Cape and Islands.

Boston 25 Meteorologists say wind can get up to 70 mph in parts of southeastern Massachusetts.

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