Londonderry Power Outage

Where's Watty's Truck?  Londonderry, New Hampshire Day 8 Ice Storm 2008At about 7:25 homes in the center of Londonderry lost power. While it returned to most locations within 30 minutes, the CTV system in Town has no signal being transmitted.

Also the feed for our Londonderry Hometown Online News police and fire scanner is down. Attempts to access the scanner will result in an error that the file can not be found.

Website servers did not loose power, and onsite workstations switched to backup power. Please leave a comment on your power situation. PSNH is did not report any widespread outages.

Our network management software shows many residents looking for “Power Outage in Londonderry” and similar searches. We also see many attempting to access the scanner, and apologize as it is temporarily not accessible.

Update 9pm

No information on the PSNH website.  On contacting PSNH the following information is available.

From PSNH at 8:25pm  Parts of Londonderry, Derry Hudson, Litchfield and Windham caused by a pole accident on Mammoth Road in Londonderry.  All power is expected to be connected by 2am.

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  1. Heather Rojo

    Here in Rolling Meadows (Old Nashua Road) we were only out about 15 minutes. Our cable tv is all scrambled however…

  2. Siekmann

    We still out of power 8:54

  3. Siekmann

    Does anyone have any updateson restoration?

    1. admin

      https://www.psnh.com/Form/Residential_Report_Outage_Form.asp
      Be sure to report it at the link here or call 1-800-662-7764
      What general part of the town are you in Tammy?

  4. admin

    From PSNH at 8:25pm Parts of Londonderry, Derry Hudson, Litchfield and Windham caused by a pole accident on Mammoth Road in Londonderry.

  5. admin

    PSNH is reporting that power will be returned by 2am. (Emphasis added) by the “Where’s Watty” team at Londonderry Hometown Online News.

  6. Siekmann

    we reported it immediately to PSNH at around 7:30pm. We are on Hovey Road between Pillsbury and Hardy Road. This is the third time this week. Thanks for being so informative and on top of this!

  7. Dave

    This is the 2nd time in 3 days we lost power. But what is more concerning is we lose power a lot. Yes, there was some sort of accident, but how in gods green earth can 5 towns lose power when 1 pole gets hit? This shows once again that PSNH has no emergency plan, no fail over, no way to reroute power to other locations. The whole system is a single point failure. Lose 1 telephone hole and southern NH goes black? Gee, if I were a terrorist, I could cripple the state (probably the country) by just driving a car into a pole, a few of them maybe, its free and obvious very effective to cause mass inconvenience and interruptions. We just never learn. I know where I work if we had this many outages we would be out of business or I would be fired. Amazing to say the least that 1 pole brings 5 towns down (or parts of them)

    1. Dave
      I absolutely agree with you 100%. I would like to add that when we, (Century Village condos) lose power, we also lose our water!!!!!!

  8. George

    How about updates from the town? It is clear the people are the only reliable source of information!

  9. BSaur

    A car hit the guy-wires on the pole at the corner of Mammoth and Pillsbury, shaking the pole and causing the wires to arc against each other. Caused some excitement for the Scouts of Troop 426 who were all on the Common at that time.

    Londonderry police were on the scene within minutes and at 8:30 pm PSNH was seen working their way down Mammoth checking wires (there were just past Peabody Funeral Home when I passed them.)

    (How many of us paused to think…just how much gas is still in the generator?)

    Hope everyone is back by now.

  10. Alison Yankowskas

    I was at the North School spring concert at LMS when the lights went out. My orchestra students and Nancy Laporte’s band students got their performances in, but the chorus had just barely begun when the power outage occurred. Even with the very limited emergency lighting in the LMS gym, all appeared relatively calm and managed to file out of the building without incident or accidents.

  11. John

    Our power on Wilshire Drive went out at 7:25 and was bach on at 10:05pm. what a hassle considering we haqve a daughter who has to be at the midle school at 5am for the DC trip. alls well now.

  12. Jim Loiselle

    Why do I get the impression that all of Londonderry is connected to PSNH by a series of extension cords. One pole impacts 5 towns in NH and as far as we know Detroit too. What does PSNH do go around to each house and un-screw your front porch light and replace it with a new one; checking to see exactly where the circuit is broken…….

  13. Bill P.

    We lost power on Hardy Rd until 10:05, turned on my portable scanner to catch the FD off at an accident scene and the captain asking dispatch several times if PSNH could provide an ETA, the dispatcher replied they would be calling back with an ETA. Five minutes later the FD cleared and he said to let PD know of the PSNH ETA. (now I’m in the dark again thanks to the PD digital radios) One pole taking out 5 towns does not seem like a well designed “grid”.

    Saturday night we were out for 90 minutes and then on for some period and then off again. (not sure of the time as I was mostly sleeping though it)

    But we’ve got plenty of D-batteries now!

  14. Amazing, I watched channel 9 news the following morning from 5am through and including 6am and absolutely no comment or explanation on the outage. If it were a story about Spears or Obama you can bet your bottom dollar you would see it 10 to 12 times during the broadcasts that repeat themselves over and over. One pole, one driver and down goes Humpty Dumpty and 5 towns. Wow, how we have advanced! I believe NH is about 30 years behind in technology alone.

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