Grounds crew work to clear snow off the sphere at Highmark Stadium earlier than an NFL soccer sport between the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins in Orchard Park, N.Y., Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022.

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Grounds crew work to clear snow off the sphere at Highmark Stadium earlier than an NFL soccer sport between the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins in Orchard Park, N.Y., Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022.

Gene J. Puskar/AP

BOSTON — Utility crews raced Saturday to revive energy to tens of 1000’s of consumers throughout New England and New York after a strong storm dumped 2 toes of snow in some locations.

More than 160,000 clients in New England have been at nighttime as of the afternoon and one other 20,000 have been with out energy in New York as heavy snow introduced tree limbs onto energy traces, based on poweroutage.us, which tracks outages throughout the nation.

Restoration efforts have been difficult by snow nonetheless falling in some locations, making journey harmful. Doug Foley, Eversource president of electrical operations in New Hampshire, mentioned snow-covered roads have been making it powerful for staff to achieve communities with a purpose to assess harm and make repairs.

“We are still taking on system damage in parts of the state where heavy, wet snow continues to fall, and hundreds of additional crews are coming to New Hampshire to support our restoration effort,” Foley mentioned in an emailed assertion.

As of Saturday afternoon, Eversource had restored energy to almost 61,000 clients in New Hampshire for the reason that starting of the storm, however one other 40,000 remained with out energy, based on the utility.

Green Mountain Power, which serves clients in Vermont, mentioned extra outages have been attainable there with temperatures not anticipated to heat up sufficient within the subsequent couple of days to soften the snow.

“Clearing downed trees to get to outage locations has been slow and difficult,” Mike Burke, the utility firm’s vp of discipline operations, mentioned in a press release.

More than 2 toes of snow was recorded in elements of Vermont and western New York, and lots of communities throughout the area noticed greater than a foot, based on the National Weather Service.