DERRY, 5:02 p.m. Officials are warning residents who anticipate the need for shelter that they should seek it before the storm intensifies. Travel will be extremely hazardous tonight in areas where power lines are still in the roadways. The public works department will not be plowing those areas due to that hazard, according to information released by the emergency operations center. For more information, call 845-5522.
EPPING, 4:55 p.m. Power has been restored to most of the town, with only isolated areas still in the dark, according to Fire Chief Skip Galvin.
Power that had been restored to the Prescott Road area was knocked out for a time again today, but Galvin said he believes the power is back on.
Fire officials are keeping a close eye on the weather forecast for Sunday’s snowstorm and hoping they won’t be facing a repeat of last week’s ice storm. “We may be back into what we were before,” Galvin said.
Galvin praised the emergency workers and volunteer firefighters who worked long hours to helping people in the ice storm recovery effort. Many had no power at their own homes. “I’ve got to give them credit for doing what they did,” he said.
DANVILLE, 4:27 p.m. Residents of Cotton Farm Village mobile home park won’t be getting their power back on until Sunday, local officials said this afternoon.
While Unitil expects to have power back on for almost all of its customers by tonight, PSNH is continuing to work on its lines and it appears that Cotton Farm Village, which has about 140 residences, will have to wait longer than others, Police Chief Wade Parsons said.
Parsons said he hopes the tree trimming that’s been done over the last few days will be enough to spare the area more outages from snowstorms this weekend.
Police have reported no break-ins of darkened homes, Parsons said.
A shelter remains open at the Danville Fire Association Hall. It is expected to be open until power has been fully restored.
Because Cotton Farm Village will spend the weekend in the dark, officials expect the shelter will see more people seeking assistance.
MERRIMACK, 4:12 p.m. About 1,400 of the 11,600 PSNH customers in town were still without power as of this morning, according to town officials.
This afternoon, Town Manager Keith Hickey said there is no timeframe as to when the entire community will have power restored.
"PSNH is still out there, doing their thing," he said. "The areas (without power) are shrinking and the ability to fix a couple of poles and to get several hundred people on at one time...those opportunities have been exhausted, I think.
"Now, we are down to some of the more remote (areas) or repairs needing to be made that impact one or a few houses at the most. It's unfortunate, but I'm sure Public Service is doing the best they can and, as frustrating as it is, I think people have to remember that and do the best they can," added Hickey.
While Whittier Place and Spruce Street were some of the roads re-energized late Thursday night, the Camp Sargent and Peaslee roads section of town is just one example of where homes remain in the dark.
The town plans to file for disaster aid through FEMA and, if its application is approved, Merrimack could be eligible for a reimbursement of up to 75 percent of emergency costs associated with wages, gasoline, fuel, and supplies, according to Hickey.
Meanwhile, the school district released students prior to completion of a full school day Friday due to the storm that was expected to drop about 3-to-5 inches of snow. The state has said it may not require students to attend 180 days of school to accommodate districts hardest hit by last week's ice storm that have had days, if not a few weeks, of cancelations
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