(Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS) The intensity of the early-morning blizzard conditions that moved through the area early Monday challenged firefighters called out around daybreak to battle a 3-alarm fire on Cartier Street in Manchester. Despite the conditions, crews were able to rescue all occupants and their pets from the burning building.

The winter storm that The Weather Channel folks named Izzy had something to offer for just about every locale up and down the Eastern seaboard late Sunday into Monday, ranging from tornadoes in Florida to heavy snowfall, in many cases accompanied by strong, gusty winds, in mid-Atlantic states, where most states rarely see that much snow in an entire season.

Greater Nashua, aside from pockets of power outages, scattered reports of fallen trees and the inevitable roadway spinouts and minor collisions, pretty much escaped unscathed by the latest sizeable weather system to come East this season.

As for power outages, the number across New Hampshire peaked around mid-morning Monday, according to reports by the Nashua Weather Service that was posted on Nashua Patch.

Eversource reported in the neighborhood of 2,000 outages across Nashua, Hudson, Amherst, Milford and some of the smaller Souhegan Valley towns. Just about all customers had service restored by mid-afternoon.

Unitil, the electric service provider that serves Concord and several surrounding towns, as well as about a dozen Seacoast area communities from Exeter south to Salem, peaked at roughly 3,000 outages — 2,400 of which were in Hampton — but only 90 customers were still out by mid-afternoon.

The first signs of snow appeared in the Nashua area after midnight, and it wasn’t long before it was falling heavily across the area. Come daybreak, the rain/snow line was beginning to edge its way through the region turning the 4-5 inches of snow on the ground into heavy, waterlogged clumps of slush, the kind that strains lower backs and gums up snowblower chutes.

Looking ahead, residents who didn’t fully clear their driveways and walkways by the end of Monday are likely to regret it come Tuesday morning, as temperatures were expected to fall to the low 20s overnight and recover only to the mid-20s for a high Tuesday, cold enough to turn the slush into hunks of ice.

Temperatures are expected to moderate a bit by mid-week, but another chilly stretch is in store for the area for the end of the week. Forecasters are also watching a system that could bring some type of precipitation to the region by the weekend.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.