KEENE, NH – A late season Nor’easter blanketed the Monadnock Region in heavy, wet snow and left a trail of damage behind as it moved out of the region.

The storm began Monday evening, and the snow began to dissipate around midnight on Tuesday, dumping upwards of three feet of snow in some areas and bringing down trees and power lines in the process, forcing dozens of road closures and hundreds of thousands of power outages statewide.

According to a news release Friday morning, Eversource has restored power to more than 243,000 customers since the storm began Monday night, and some crews are still out working to restore any remaining outages. The power company deployed more than 2,200 line, tree, and service crews across the state to work around the clock to restore power.

“This storm caused widespread damage across New Hampshire and presented extra challenges in just getting crews to areas where the damage was, and when you’re talking about a restoration operation of this magnitude, it really took a coordinated effort by hundreds of crews and thousands of Eversource employees in support roles to reach substantial completion ahead of schedule today, “said Eversource New Hampshire President of Electric Operations Doug Foley. “I can’t thank our crews and all of our employees working behind the scenes enough for their hard work in extraordinarily difficult conditions, as well as our customers for their patience and support during the last few days. I want everyone to know we will continue working until every last customer has their lights back on.”

As of Friday morning, 99% of customers had their lights back on. Less than 500 outages remained statewide by 12:30 pm Friday. Earlier this week Eversource had issued a statement saying that nearly all customers should have their power restored by 6 pm tonight.

Crews had difficulties gaining access to some areas to make repairs, and the release says Eversource came up with innovative solutions to get to those trouble spots to restore power quickly, including using tools such as helicopters and drone patrols to quickly survey powerlines and locate system damage, and to track vehicles that can drive through deep snow and get crews into hard-to-reach spots.

The Monadnock Region, which is serviced by Eversource’s Keene workstation was among the hardest hit by this storm. A section of Route 9 in Keene and Stoddard was shut down for some time Thursday afternoon and overnight to facilitate repairs in that area.

For more information on remaining outages, visit the Eversource Outage Map.