The deep drone of electric generators carried into its fourth straight day for some neighborhoods in Barrington on Thursday, as hundreds of residents continued to wait for their electricity to be restored.

The power went out for hundreds of thousands of people across the region late Sunday night as a strong storm throwing hurricane-force gusts plowed across the Northeast. 

In Barrington, more than 4,000 homes and businesses lost power. For some, the lights came back on Monday afternoon, marking only a mild inconvenience. But for others, the wait for their electricity to be restored rolled into its fourth day on Thursday.

In West Barrington, a pocket of about 100 homes waited — at first patiently, and later with frustration — for National Grid repair trucks to arrive. One small Grid truck was spotted near the intersection of Bradford Street and Washington Road, but the worker said he was tasked only with watching a downed line. He said he worked for the Grid's natural gas team and would not be able to help restore the electricity.

Residents checked the Grid's online outage map with hopes for a positive update. On Wednesday afternoon, a small hard-hat icon appeared on Milton Road, near St. Luke's Church. A resident who lives a few blocks away drove to the street, hoping to alert the crew to downed lines near Bicknell Park, but instead found that there was no Grid crew on scene. 

Tuesday afternoon on Highland Avenue, residents watched with mixed emotions as their neighbors' lights came back on, while they stayed in the dark. Eventually, a resident tracked down an electrical worker on a nearby roadway. She asked for him to help with their outage. Initially, he said he was not allowed to do so, but he eventually relented and, after just 10 minutes of work, was able to replace a blown fuse inside a transformer box. Halloween lights flashed to life.

In the Hampden Meadows neighborhood of Old Chimney Road, Copper Kettle and Chantilly Drive, an army of generators hummed steadily for a fourth straight day. The neighborhood was hit especially hard by the Sunday night storm — numerous trees pulled down wires and smashed into houses.

And while Barrington DPW crews were able to open roads and clear out down limbs by Monday afternoon, National Grid crews were hard to find even four days later. Thursday morning residents were still getting their kids ready for school without the aid of electricity.

Back on Bradford Street, some residents were greeted with good news on Thursday morning. A portion of the affected neighborhood had its power restored at about 6 a.m. One resident believes it may have been the call she made to the Grid late Wednesday afternoon that made the difference. She said she told a Grid dispatcher that crews needed to get to Bicknell Park right away — she said Bicknell Field hosts to dozens of children playing each day, but as of Wednesday was still strewn with downed power lines.

Work trucks were spotted arriving late Wednesday night.

Meanwhile, as of 8:15 a.m. on Thursday, the Grid's outage map still showed 383 homes without power in Barrington. The estimated restoration time — 11:45 p.m.