How Charlestown Fared in Blizzard of '13
A quick look at important numbers and news from the two-day storm.
Charlestown and the rest of Boston saw about 21.8 inches of snow, give or take a few, in the Blizzard of 2013, according to measurements taken at Logan Airport in nearby East Boston. The snowstorm swept in as predicted around noon on Friday, Feb. 8 and steadily increased through the evening, with strong winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour and snowfall quite heavy at times. In Boston, as many as 850 NSTAR customers were without power at one point Friday evening. Electricity was restored fairly quickly in the city compared to some of the less fortunate communities in southeastern Massachusetts, particularly along the Cape. By Saturday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., only 41 NSTAR customers in Boston were reporting power outages. A …
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Plenty O'Toole
8:02 am on Monday, February 11, 2013
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