Strong Gusty Winds Down Tree Limbs, Cause Scattered Power Outages In Western Mass

Hundreds of Massachusetts residents are now without power as wind gusts topping 50 mph whip through the region.

The Eversource outage map on Monday, March 29.
Photo Credit: *Eversource*

03/29/2021 10:30 a.m.

A High Wind Warning is in effect until 4 p.m. Monday, March 29.

As of around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, utility crews from Eversource were still working to repair dozens of outages that were impacting 2,766 of the company’s 220,386 customers in Western Massachusetts.

An additional 71 customers were impacted in Central and Eastern Massachusetts, according to the company.

The hardest-hit area was Becket, which reported 1,473 outages, impacting more than 75 percent of the company’s customers.

Outages were also reported in Blandford, Buckland, Chester, Chesterfield, Colrain, Conway, Cummington, Huntington, Lanesborough, Lee, Middlefield, Otis, Pittsfield, Plainfield, Richmond, Sandisfield, Savoy, Tolland, Washington, Westhampton, Windsor, and Worthington.

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