India, Feb. 23 -- Thousands of customers in eastern Massachusetts were without electricity at 8 am on Monday, reported the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.

According to the MEMA outage database, Plymouth was the most severely affected area just after 8:30 am, with over 17,000 customers lacking power. This represents a significant increase from the previous hour.

Following Plymouth, Dennis ranks second on the outage leaderboard with 10,640 customers without power, as per MEMA. While the Cape is not an ideal location to be today, Bourne, Brewster, Orleans, Eastham, and Wareham all report more than 3,000 customers without electricity, as stated in the database.

On the South Shore, Quincy is at the forefront with 3,659 residents ...