Despite the ongoing attempts by the New Hampshire utilities' crews to restore power to the nearly 360,000 customers affected by power supply outage - after the Thursday night storm that uprooted trees, shattered utility poles, and damaged power lines - a vast number of people still remained without power till Sunday afternoon.

Statistically speaking, Gregg Champlin, spokesman of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management, as many as 75,000 customers of the Public Service Company of New Hampshire, the leading utility of the state, still remained without power; while nearly 5,130 Unitil customers and almost 6,607 New Hampshire Electric Coop customers reported that power had not been restored.

Noting that the state has summoned the services of nearly 200 additional line-and-tree-clearing crews from other states - including Michigan, New Brunswick, and Maryland -, Katya Brennan, spokeswoman for New Hampshire Homeland Security and Emergency Management, assured the people: "Power is coming back on. The utility companies are making progress."

According to the New Hampshire Electric Coop spokesman Seth Wheeler, power will likely be restored to almost all customers by 9 tonight; even though scattered outages are expected to persist till Wednesday.

Meanwhile, power supply for almost all affected customers in Vermont had been restored; while in Maine, nearly 16,000 Central Maine Power customers, and almost 400 Bangor Hydro-Electric customers remained without electricity late Sunday evening.