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Gov. Douglas to visit towns hit by ice storm
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Gov. Jim Douglas is planning to visit today areas of Vermont hit by the ice storm earlier this month.VPR News
PSNH projects that nearly all of its customers will have power by midnight today
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Only about a couple thousand New Hampshire homes and businesses remain in the dark from an ice storm that knocked out power to 430,000 at its peak.VPR News
Lynch asks for fed disaster aid for NH
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New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has asked President Bush to declare that the state has suffered a major disaster as a result of the ice storm that began on December 11.VPR News
Interview: Sen. Matt Houde on power outages
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More than 700 people in Vermont are still without power today, almost a week after an ice storm hit New England. Even harder hit was New Hampshire…where an estimated 54,000 people are still in the dark. New Hampshire State Senator Matt Houde of Plainfield is one of those thousands who spent nearly a week without powerVPR News
FEMA teams assessing storm damage in NH
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Teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have arrived in New Hampshire to begin assessing damage from last week’s ice storm.VPR News
Power outages about 750
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Vermont’s largest power company is continuing to make progress in getting the power back on after the ice storm that hit the southern part of the state last week.VPR News
Some NH power may be off into next week
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State officials say some residents of ice-ravaged New Hampshire may not get their power back until next week.VPR News
NH outages down to about 117,000
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Power has been restored to nearly three-quarters of the New Hampshire homes and businesses left in the dark by last week’s ice storm.VPR News