December 12, 2008 NH opens hotline for ice storm help Play video

(NECN: Brad Puffer, Derry, NH) - New Hampshire has set up a telephone hotline for people having problems or special needs related to the ice storm. Calls about power outages still should go to power companies, and emergency calls still should go to 911.

People with other needs should call the hotline. The number is: (888) 330-6764.

Nearly two dozen shelters have been set up across southern New Hampshire for those who lost power.

The shelters are in Fremont, Raymond, Winchester, Portsmouth, Wakefield, Brentwood, Henniker, Nashua, New London, Gilford, Londonderry, Alton, Washington, Middleton, Kingston, Exeter, Charlestown, Rindge, Derry, Jaffrey and Newmarket.