| Article: | After the storm: $10 million and counting Already, power has been restored to most of the 140,000 left without electricity Monday. It’s an amazing accomplishment given the breadth of damage. There is no way to fully calculate the cost of this damage, but here’s one conservative estimate. Presume power outages force 50,000 households to toss and replenish the contents of their refrigerators. At a minimum of $100 per household, that’s a $5 million community-wide expense. |