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Night of the Storm 2

Saturday Night: the High Wind Advisory from the National Weather Service has been lifted, but northwest wind gusts will still be significant overnight - especially considering the weight of ice and snow on trees and power lines. 

As of 9:20pm NStar is still reporting new failures on its equipment across Cape Cod, even as it struggles to catch up from the outages of Friday night into Saturday morning. 

Here's a snapshot of outages as of 9:15pm.  You can see it's an ugly picture: roughly half of the Cape without power, and some truly impressive local numbers. 91% of customers in Brewster without power, 99% in Mattapoisett, 94% in Marion, 95% in Wareham. Pity the poor linemen out in this storm working to restore service.

Steve is Managing Editor of News. He came to WCAI in 2007. He also hosts the weekly News Roundup on Friday mornings and produces The Fishing News.