Tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents are without power Saturday as a blizzard pummels the region with more than two feet of snow and wind gusts up to 90 mph in some areas.
As of Saturday afternoon, over 108,000 residents were reporting power outages.
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency warned that the greatest risk for outages was in the eastern part of the state, including Cape Cod and the Islands.
Some of the hardest hit towns include Provincetown with more than 5,900 out — which is listed as 100% of town, Eastham with over 6,000 — 90%, Chatham with more than 7,600 –89% , and Barnstable with more than 19,000 — 63%.
Chris McKinnon from Eversource joined NBC10 Boston on Saturday morning to talk about the preparations the utility is taking to prepare for power outages as a result of the big storm.
Christine Milligan of National Grid talks about the company’s response to more than 7,000 customers who lost power.