ADVISORY/ Storm Information for Customers From National Grid Electric Distribution Companies.News Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001 Customer Contact Information: Please announce 24-hour customer outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. numbers in any news stories concerning today's storm: Massachusetts Electric Company: 800-465-1212 Narragansett Electric Company: 800-909-1212 Nantucket Electric Company: 888-444-6326 Granite State Electric Company: 800-468-6473 Storm/Outage Safety Tips: Do not touch any downed or hanging electrical power lines, even if power appears to be out in the area. Any line could be live and potentially deadly on contact. Report any downed lines immediately. If a line falls across your car while you are in it, stay in the car until help arrives. If you lose power, call your electric company to report it. Do not allow children to play on snow banks near utility poles A utility pole, telegraph pole, telephone pole, power pole, or telegraph post is a post or pole upon which telecommunication network equipment is situated. or wires. Do not attempt to shut off your electric service (at the fuse box or circuit breakers Circuit breakers Measures instituted by exchanges to stop trading temporarily when the market has fallen by a certain percentage in a specified period. They are intended to prevent a market free fall by permitting buy and sell orders to rebalance. ) if there is even the slightest amount of water or moisture present due to flooding due to heavy precipitation precipitation, in chemistry precipitation, in chemistry, a process in which a solid is separated from a suspension, sol, or solution. In a suspension such as sand in water the solid spontaneously precipitates (settles out) on standing. . Do not use gas stoves or ovens as a heat source. Background: Massachusetts Electric serves 1.2 million customers in 168 communities. Narragansett Electric serves more than 460,000 customers in 38 Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. communities. Nantucket Electric serves more than 10,000 customers on the island. Granite State Electric serves more than 37,000 customers in 21 New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). communities. |
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