Superstorm Sandy 2012 Aftermath: Nor'easter Brings 200,000 New Outages in East Coast

With thousands still without power, outages in East Coast have spiked thanks to this week's Nor'easter.

NBC News is reporting more than 200,000 new outages in the northern East Coast after Superstorm Sandy touched down early last week.

The storm left more than 2.1 million New Yorkers, according to estimations by Reuters via the Chicago Tribune. Overall, more than 8.5 million were left in the dark on the East Coast following Sandy's arrival, KTVN.com reports, with roughly 750,000 homes and businesses in New York and New Jersey without power.

The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has estimated that at east 123,000 additional power outages were caused in their service areas of Long Island and parts of New York City.

LIPA is committing at least 14,000 additional workers to the new repairs, including 8,200 linemen from across the country, the company states on their storm center web page.

"Crews continued working through the night, as they have been doing throughout our restoration effort. Since this morning we have been back in full restoration mode and assessing damage," a statement on the site read. "This recent storm will have some impact on restoration efforts, but all of our crews are prepared to work in these types of conditions. Rest assured that we will continue to work as long as, and whenever, it is safe to do so."

Connecticut Light and Power, a utilities company that serves 1,240,580 customers in Connecticut, is reporting 279 power outages in their service area as of Thursday. United Illuminating Company, another Connecticut power company, is reporting 62 outages affecting 466 customers as a result of the Noreaster Thursday.

In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for an investigation as to why utilities were taking so long to restore power.

"Privately I have used language my daughters couldn't hear," he said Thursday, according to the Associated Press via the Connecticut Post. He added: "It's unacceptable the longer it goes on because the longer it goes on, people's suffering is worse."

More than 1,600 were cancelled Wednesday when a Nor'easter hit the area with a mix of rain and snow, the Associated Press is reporting. United and American suspended operations in the region by afternoon, as white-out conditions developed.

At least 20,000 flights were cancelled as a result of Hurricane Sandy.