Power Outages: Where Are They in Newton?
We'll keep track of what we know in the article below.
- By Melanie Graham
- Email the author
- October 29, 2012
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UPDATED 11/1/12, 7:11 a.m. According to NSTAR's power outage map, Newton's power outage number is down to 600 customers.
Are you still without power? Let us know in the comments section below. We'll be posting additional updates in a new story.
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10/31/12, 2:30 p.m. with updates to the map above with street closure information provided by City Hall.
As of Wednesday morning, still more than 3,200 NSTAR customers in Newton are without power, or roughly 8 percent of the total NSTAR customers in the city.
We've updated our power outage map (above) using the tips from readers in the comments section below. Please keep leaving us street names and we will update the map.
Note: The yellow dots on the map indicate power outages. Red dots indicate road blocks or downed trees.
Newton Mayor Setti Warren and Fire Chief Bruce Proia offered an update Tuesday afternoon on the cleanup in Newton as well as the power outages. During that press conference, Proia noted that areas West Newton appeared to have been hit the hardest.
According to NSTAR's website, crews may be able to get power back to all Newton houses by thursday night.
We know there are many more power outages than what we have below, so please share with us if you can:
- Cherry Street
- Farmington Road
- Annapolis Road
- Forest Avenue
- Bacon Street and Washington Street
- Carleton Street and Emerson Street near Pearl Street
- Harvey Place
- Meadowbrook Road
- Pershing Road
- Brookline Street and Vine Street
- Fuller Terrace
- Lower Falls: Clearwater, Sherrin, Deforest, Goff, Bluberry, Crehore, Hallron and Grove
- Fordham Road
- Dexter Road
- Walnut Street in Newton Highlands
- Westview Terrace
- Jepsen Court
- Temple Street
- Sunhill Lane
- Allen Ave from Richardson Little League Field to Beacon Street
- Highland Avenue
- Westview Terrace
- Four Corners: Brentwood, Garland, Judith, Charlotte
Is the power off at your house? Tell us where you are in the comments section.
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JennyG
4:55 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Newtonville by Newton North has been out since around 2:30. Traffic light on Walnut Street across from Tiger Drive isn't working. It appears that there is electricity at the high school, but just hallways - perhaps emergency lights?
Melanie Graham
5:11 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Thanks, Jenny! And yes, the lights on at Newton North are likely some sort of back-up. Lots of power outages reported in that area.
MissE
1:53 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Can anyone check in who lives near Newton North? I "evacuated" to a friend's place at a neighboring town shortly there after (Rt 9 inbound was a bit hairy in a couple spots). It looks like the power in that area may have come back at 5pm yesterday. Did it stay on and is it on right now?
Watchdog
5:09 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
The 950 Dedham Street area just went out, not too far from the West Roxbury line. Elderly residents among those impacted.
JennyG
5:11 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Power's back on near Newton North!
Reliable Source
5:25 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Bernard St. and Christina Ave. area next to Charles River CC in Newton Highlands out since approx. 2:20 pm.
John
5:27 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Area around Cabot (Parkview street) and Harvard circle off Cabot street out
Watchdog
5:45 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Power back on near West Roxbury border (Dedham Street area) now. Most likely tied to a bigger outage they were working on. That was quick, all things considered.
suzkohl
5:50 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Temple St., off Highland Ave., West Newton @5:30 PM.
Amy Mugherini
6:47 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Cabot Street towards the Centre St end is still out as well.
Kate
7:34 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Power out on baldpate hill road since 3:30 pm any updates.
John
7:59 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Parkview next to Cabot is on (across the park on eastside parkway was on most of the time) Harvard circle now on as well
skip
9:09 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
Lombard street near centre is still out
Melanie Graham
11:54 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
I know this isn't exactly a power issue, but AT&T has no service whatsoever in Chestnut Hill this evening. Normally between 0-1 bars...now, we're down to just "No Service."
dale
5:49 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
53 Sheldon road..since 4 or.5 Monday
dale
5:52 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
we are at
Still out
Reliable Source
8:02 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Tree on power wires at 51 bernard street
Beth
9:01 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Power is OUT on Otis Street near Valentine and Forest Streets
Brian Labow
9:39 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Forest Ave....no power since 2:30pm....any updates??
Melanie Graham
10:07 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Thanks for all the power outage updates, we really appreciate it.
As of right now, NSTAR does not have an estimated time as to when power will be fully restored in Newton, but as soon as we have information from them or the city, we will pass it along.
Thank you!
Morgan
10:09 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Bacon street off washington street has Been out of power since Monday around 4:30
Jason Pound
10:25 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
power is out on warwick road west newton since 4pm yesterday
Paul Shoemaker
10:43 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Part of Warwick rd was still out this morning
Jonah Pesner
11:04 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
No power on much of Brookline Street either.
k miller
11:23 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Carleton Street and Emerson Street Near Pearl out since 4 or so yesterday.
Anonymous
1:06 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Lockwood road (w newton hill) and parts of Temple Street/Prince Street out
MZ
1:47 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
22 plus hour with no power on Baldpate Hill Road
Nstar truck came by at around 1:30 checked one pole drove around and left
Hoping assessment phase is complete and HOPING the repair phase is less than 22 hours away
Looking at Nstar website looks like Newton has the second most number of houses without power
Apologies for typoes, commenting from a mobile device
LMC
2:07 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Harvey Place lost power at 3:20pm. Still no power.
Esther Dezube
3:15 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
We have no power for a day and a half on Meadowbrook Rd by Brown Junior High School. Any updated?
gary
7:04 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Pershing rd, west newton; out since monday afternoon; now 7pm tuesday
Melanie Graham
7:41 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Thanks, everyone, for the updates on where the power is out. We have the latest update from the city available here: http://patch.com/A-zgT8
I also included some information above. Please keep the updates coming! We will be continuing coverage with this over the next couple of days.
MZ
7:46 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Vine street,Brookline St around it and Baldpate have been out since yesterday. My guess is a couple of hundred customers.
There was a hot wire on vine close to brookline st and police were there all night last night but Nstar must not have shown up. Even today Newton police and fire department showed up a few times, no Nstar
The area is blocked now
I have also noticed that in absolute numbers Newton has been in top 5 and today in top 3 and this afternoon the town with most customers without power
Not sure how many think Nstar is doing a better job this time,but i am not seeing an improvement
It would be great if here was a way to compare this to last year.
Patch?
Sorry for typos
Commenting with a phone
By the way Nstar updated their website and all moved
from assessing to being fixed be midnight on Thursday
Newton resident
10:15 pm on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Rowena rd is blocked by a fallen tree that snapped an electric pole. Sad thing is that half of that tree fell last October with the same effect - you would think the person who had it would have removed the remainder. Nstar has sent five people (!) to look at the scene - but not a single one of them did anything.
Jason Pound
3:09 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
power is back on warwick road
thanks NSTAR!
Rob Newton
7:58 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
All of Fernwood Rd & Stratford Rd in West Newton have been out since 4:15pm on Monday. Hope power's back on before trick or treat time.
Bill Renke
9:42 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Lower Falls update: Still no power on Clearwater, Sherrin, Deforest, Goff, Blueberry, most of Crehore, Hallron, and some Grove. At least 90 homes in total.
Nancy
9:51 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Fordham Rd. is still without power. I am shocked that Halloween is still on for tonight.
Bev Spencer
10:08 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Dexter Rd between Walnut and Hull has been out since early Mon. aft. NStar last night said it is on :Pending"list
LMC
10:24 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Whats the "pending" list?
Amy Rath
10:20 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
No power still on Walnut Place in Newton Highlands. Argh.
LMC
10:23 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Still no power on Harvey Place...
Jeff Bazinet
10:27 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Henshaw Terrace (lower part) and Jepsen Ct have been out since 4:30pm on Monday.
Paula Mackin
10:30 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
No power on Westview terrace since 5 pm Monday. Can't get any updates. We reported outage immediately but doesn't show up on map
MT
12:04 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Power is out on Highland Street in West Newton
Margot H
12:32 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Power still out on Lockwood Road in West Newton
Robert Hurley
12:57 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
I understand that there are outages
I do not understand why we cannot get any better information from NSTAR than " it will be fixed by Thursday evening " - This is their generic reply to all inquiries. The City should expect some priority based or specific information. And how are residents supposed to know when the problem is fixed on their street?
Couldn't NSTAR post on their website when power is restored to a specific street or do they just expect us to sit in the dark and wait to see when power is restored?
LMC
1:02 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
I agree. I signed up to get a text message when the problem is resolved. I am not sure how reliable this will be but its something. Also the message dosent guara
ntee our power back by then:
"We estimate the majority of customers will have power restored by 11:30 PM on 11/01/2012."
Helen
1:24 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Power still out at Highland and Lockwood in West Newton. Hoping for restoration this afternoon or this evening.
Mona Newton
1:36 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Power out in four corners: Brentwood, Garland, Judith, Charlotte all still without power. We have the relatively unique situation where Verizon owns the poles so coordination is required among the various utilities on the poles. In most other states the poles are owned by the electric utility. #stilldark
Jeff Bazinet
6:08 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Power is back on for Henshaw Terrace/Jepsen Ct
skip
7:47 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Power is back on lombard
Amy Rath
9:41 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Power still out Walnut place. Looks like only 4 houses on one side of street affected so nstar doesn't care. This getting ridiculous.
doug cornelius
9:54 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Power back on at Lockwood Rd.
Amy Rath
7:36 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Walnut Place between Walnut Street and Shady Hill Run still out of power. Going to a hotel today of nothing return by this evening. This is outrageous.
LMC
8:43 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Harvey Place still out