Dive Summary:

• A nor’easter blew through New Jersey on Wednesday night, slowing down and even hurting some of the relief effort already completed.
• Public Service Electric & Gas reported that 90,000 customers lost power during the new storm, but about 50,000 of them had already had their power restored.
• In addition to the new round of outages, utilities must contend with trees and branches, which were weakened during Hurricane Sandy and now face the potential for snowfall.

From the article:

The state’s utility companies lost ground tonight restoring power to customers as the nor’easter that blew through the state erased gains made against the damage brought by Hurricane Sandy.

At 10:30 p.m. PSE&G said today’s storm knocked power out for 90,000 customers, but more than half of them, about 50,000 already have had their service restored, a spokeswoman said. ...