A Post-Blizzard Message from the Braintree Electric Light Department

BELD said all of its nearly 16,000 customers experienced outages as some point during the Blizzard of 2013.

Below is a letter from the GM of the Braintree Electric Light Department on the Blizzard of 2013: The Blizzard of 2013 was an historic storm that will most certainly be talked about for years to come. The combination of heavy snow and wind gusts over 65 mph brought down trees and power lines in Braintree, leaving many homes without heat and electricity. As you know, Braintree Electric Light Department (BELD) staff and crews worked diligently throughout the storm, doing everything within our abilities to restore power and limit the number of affected customers within our community. All 15,895 BELD customers experienced an outage during the storm. For 43 percent of them, the outage lasted only 13 seconds. A large group of the other 57 …

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