Christmas remained dark for over 250,000 electricity customers in the northeastern USA and the states of New York and Pennsylvania.
Because stormy winds and icy rain caused power outages in some places.
In the Philadelphia region alone, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, over 35,000 customers of the energy company PECO were without electricity on Christmas morning.
Accordingly, between 2.5 and five centimeters of rain fell there, at wind speeds of up to 96 km / h.
Trees knocked over by the wind and torn branches brought down power lines in many places, said a PECO spokesman.
In the state of Massachusetts around 7,000 households had to spend Christmas morning without electricity, reported the news channel »CBS Boston«.
In addition, the meteorologist Rich Otto from the US National Weather Service warned of slippery roads.
According to "CBS Boston", however, many electricity providers were prepared for the storm and had previously brought employees back from vacation in order to be able to react to blackouts.
Nevertheless, customers should be prepared to be without electricity for a day or two due to the storm, warned the head of the energy management agency of the US state of Massachusetts.
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