Power to 9,000 customers has been restored after more than 50,000 customers in the Albuquerque metro area and to the north including the Santa Fe area, were without power Thursday morning, according to PNM.

Tens of thousands of people in New Mexico were without power Thursday as the first major winter storm of the season rolled across the northern two-thirds of the state and into Colorado, bringing with it snow and fierce winds that forced schools and government offices to close.