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Wednesday 1 november 2017
Northeast Struggling to Recover from Powerful Storm
Continued from Front Harpswell and Topsham,
where she has family.
Coast Guard officials were Neighboring Brunswick also
assessing damage from was discouraging trick-or-
Maine to Rhode Island on treating.
Tuesday. Crews identified “She was hysterical,”
more than 50 vessels Morrell said of her young
torn from their moorings. zombie cheerleader. “She
Many of the vessels were said, ‘They can’t cancel
unmanned and adrift while Halloween!’”In Bedford,
others were washed up on New Hampshire, 11-year-
shore. old Maddie LaCroix and
Some cities and towns her girlfriends were dressing
across New England up as Patriots football
postponed trick-or-treating players while the boys were
from Halloween night, dressing as cheerleaders.
Tuesday, to as late as They were disappointed to
Sunday due to concerns have to wait until Sunday.
about pitch-black streets, In the town Campton, New
downed power lines and Hampshire, some families
debris. who live near two rivers
In Harpswell, Maine, and were evacuated as a
Samantha Morrell dealt precaution returned home
with a tearful 8-year-old after water levels receded,
in Portland, Maine. Utility crews scrambled to restore power throughout New England on Tuesday,
daughter after Halloween but they are still without
events were canceled in power.Fire Chief Daniel
A woman walks down a street blocked by a storm-toppled tree, Maine, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017,
one day after a severe storm packing hurricane-force wind gusts and torrential rain.
(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Defosses said about a third treatment plant in North
of the town has power now, Andover lost power during
as do parts of neighboring the storm and spilled 8
towns. A number of roads million gallons of untreated
are still closed with downed waste into the Merrimack
trees and power lines, or River, North Andover Town
are washed out.Trick-or- Manager Andrew Maylor
treating was postponed said.Because of the power
until Friday.In Rhode Island, outage, a pump failed
Democratic Gov. Gina to move waste into the
Raimondo came up with treatment plant, allowing
a solution. She bought the waste to back up and
hundreds of pieces of flow in the river, he said.
candy and said that her There was no immediate
home has power, so trick- threat to residents, and the
or-treating kids can “come Massachusetts Department
to the governor’s street.” of Environmental Protection
The storm caused problems was looking into the
across all of New England: matter, he said.In Maine,
A house was swept away U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin,
by raging waters in New a Republican, called for
Hampshire, sailboats an investigation after
crashed onto a beach the state’s only Veterans
in Massachusetts and an Administration hospital
empty construction truck outside Augusta asked for
was blown off a bridge. emergency power during
In Massachusetts, a sewage the storm. q
California wildfire insurance
claims a massive $3.3 billion
By JONJ. COOPER lion. Jones said the number
Associated Press will continue to rise as more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) claims are reported.
— Property damage claims The amount of claims now
from a series of deadly Oc- reported means that the
tober wildfires now exceed fires caused more dam-
$3.3 billion, California Insur- age than California’s 1991
ance Commissioner Dave Oakland Hills fire, which
Jones said Tuesday. was previously the state’s
The figure represents claims costliest, with $2.7 billion in
for homes and businesses damages in 2015 dollars,
insured by 15 companies according to the Property
and is more than triple the Casualty Insurers Associa-
previous estimate of $1 bil- tion of America.q