BOSTON — Cape Cod and the South Shore are still coping with the wrath of the Blizzard of ’26.

The 11 o’clock tally for power outages remains above a quarter of a million customers without power. The exact number is 251,541, according to the MEMA database update.

Up and down the Cape power remains out with Barnstable the worst in the state with 25,300-plus outages. Falmouth is next with 23,500 without power.

Dennis, Yarmouth, Mashpee, Harwich, Brewster, Chatham, and Eastham are all listed with 5,000 to 9,000 without power — all are clocking in with 75% or more of their customers in the dark, as of 11 a.m.

Basically, Cape Cod is ice cold. Provincetown, Nantucket, Sandwich, and Wellfleet are in that cold cluster.

Officials across the region are alerting residents of overnight shelters at Barnstable Intermediate School and Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, and warming centers at Brewster and Orleans town halls, Chatham Community Center, Provincetown Community Center, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Community & Government Center, and the Family Table Collaborative in Yarmouth.

“We know many residents woke up cold and without power,” the Barnstable County Regional Emergency Planning Committee posted on Facebook at 9 a.m. “Barnstable County is working to share the most important information as quickly as possible.”

The committee notified Cape Codders that warming centers are places to “get warm, charge devices, and access basic support during limited daytime hours,” while shelters are where “residents can stay longer or overnight if home is unsafe due to no heat, medical needs, or other hazardous conditions.”

The committee stated that heating issues at Nauset High School in Eastham forced a shelter to close there, as residents are relocating to D-Y High School and Barnstable Intermediate School.

Cape Cod state Rep. Steven Xiarhos says he will be in meetings all day at the county and state levels, providing the latest information from emergency officials on social media.

“We survived record-breaking blizzard conditions across our region,” Xiarhos stated in a post just after 8 a.m. “Many residents are still without power. Plows have been out all night and continue to work, but it will take time to fully clear the roads and return to normal operations.”

“There are hundreds of utility crews now on Cape Cod working to restore power,” he added. “Many have come from across New England to assist us. We expect to see significant progress today, but restoration will take time.

Just over the bridge, Plymouth remains in the dark with 23,400 customers (homes) powerless and counting.

Marshfield, always susceptible to any nor’easter, spring, summer, winter, or fall, pokes in high on the outage list with more than 9,000 homes (sandwich shops?) without power.

The angry ocean off Scituate (as pictured above) is claiming payback with more than 5,400 homes left in the dark.

New Bedford, Oak Bluffs on the Vineyard, and Gloucester, to a much lesser degree, are still on the outage list.

The region is still digging out from this monster storm, with first responders and the neighborly among us all watching out for each other. I’ll see you outside as I dig out.

The Herald will stay on top of the outage updates as the day and week progress. If you need heat, call for help. The United Way’s #211 can help.

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