Red Cross Shelter Still Busy in Londonderry

My wife's been out of cell phone range all week. She called me the other day from the Londonderry High School, where she's been working at the Red Cross shelter during the ice storm crisis, to let me know she would be out of touch the rest of the week and not to worry. Here's the Union Leader's detailed news from that town as of Wednesday afternoon:

LONDONDERRY, 4:46 p.m. School has been canceled again for Thursday. Residents are watching to see if PSNH does have 95 percent of the town backup by midnight tonight, as the utility had forecast.

Despite the snow and freezing rain falling much of the day, PSNH did not revise its timeline released Monday for the town. However, at 3:30 p.m., large portions of south and west Londonderry remained without electricity.

Town Manager Dave Caron said PSNH had said large portions of south and west Londonderry, including customers on Apollo, Wiley Hill, Peabody, Adams, Fiddlers Ridge, Parmenter, Rebecca, Apple Blossom, Cross, Meadow and Constitution Roads would be active by Thursday, but he had not been told whether that meant just after midnight tonight or later in the day. As of 4 p.m. there were six utility trucks working in town, Caron believed.

Public Works officials managed to plow all roads safely, Caron added, believing that the work that remained in town was for utility trucks to handle.

"There's still a barricade up at Bancroft Road, but I'm pretty sure most roads are open at this point," he said.

Approximately 45 people stayed at the Red Cross shelter at the high school gym Tuesday night, down 20 from the night before. The hot meals offered at the shelter remain highly attended.