Isaias New Power Outage Update: These Rockland, Orange County Communities Are Most Affected
Thousands have had power restored, but thousands more remain in the dark days after Tropical Storm Isaias wreaked havoc in the region.
Orange & Rockland Utilities is reporting 27,794 of its 117, 244 Rockland County customers are still experiencing outages on Thursday, Aug. 6, while 17,966 of its 104,130 Orange County customers remain without power.
In Orange County, 14,350 Central Hudson customers and 33 NYSEG customers are also reporting outages.
Clarkstown (9,733 outages) has the most outages in Rockland County, with more than a thousand still being reported in Orangetown (3,342), We…
Isaias New Power Outage Update: These Westchester Communities Are Most Affected
Thousands have had power restored, but more than 100,000 in Westchester remain without power days after Tropical Storm Isaias wreaked havoc on the region.
According to the company, in 36 hours, Con Edison crews reached the halfway mark in restorations following Isaias’ punishing winds and rain that brought down thousands of trees, 78 poles, and other equipment, causing over 580 road closures and approximately 300,000 customer outages.
In Westchester, which Con Edison described as the hardest-hit area, 77,599 of the company’s 360,045 remain in the dark, while 24,878 of NYSEG’s 33,278 custome…
Isaias Power Outage Update: Estimated Restoration Times Issued; LI Communities Most Affected
Utility crews from PSEG Long Island have worked around the clock to restore power to hundreds of thousands of customers, though nearly 250,000 are still in the dark days after Tropical Storm Isaias.
PSEG said that approximately 420,000 customers were impacted by the storm, though 85 percent should have power restored by the end of the day on Friday, Aug. 7, according to the company.
As of 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6, PSEG was still working to repair 12,088 reported outages, which were impacting 246,646 of its 1,162,375 customers.
In Suffolk, 143,629 customers were still without power, w…
Isaias New Power Outage Update: These Litchfield County Communities Are Most Affected
More than 50,000 Litchfield residents are still in the dark two days after Tropical Storm Isaias ripped through the region, toppling trees, felling utility poles, and sending power lines flying.
Hundreds of Eversource line, tree, and service crews worked through the night after Tropical Storm Isaias and minor tornadoes tore through Connecticut causing widespread and historic damage to the company’s electric system, according to the company.
In Litchfield County, as of 10:40 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6, there were still 50,705 Eversource customers without power.
A breakdown of active power out…
Isaias New Power Outage Update For Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan: These Communities Most Affected
Thousands remain without power in the area two days after Tropical Storm Isaias ripped through the region.
Utility crews have been working around the clock to make repairs after the storm sent trees flying into power lines and utility poles, causing mass outages throughout Dutchess, Ulster, and Sullivan counties.
In Dutchess County, Central Hudson was reporting 16,068 customers were still without power, with an additional 11,745 NYSEG customers still in the dark.
Central Hudson was also reporting 3,772 outages in Ulster, and just 20 in Sullivan County. NYSEG had 562 customers in Sullivan a…
Isaias New Power Outage Update: These Putnam County Communities Are Most Affected
Thousands remain without power in Putnam County two days after Tropical Storm Isaias ripped through the region.
Utility crews have been working around the clock to make repairs after the storm sent trees flying into power lines and utility poles, causing mass outages throughout the Hudson Valley.
According to NYSEG, as of Thursday, Aug. 6, 24,961 of its 38,693 customers in Putnam were still without power. Central Hudson was also reporting 2,047 of its 5,160 customers were still in the dark.
A breakdown of outages in Putnam County as of 9:30 a.m. on Thursday:
Carmel: 8,643;
Kent: 5,690;…
Isaias: NY, CT Both Declare States Of Emergency
After being devastated by Tropical Storm Isaias, New York, and Connecticut have both declared a State of Emergency as they recover from the wreckage of the storm.
With hundreds of thousands of New York and Connecticut residents possibly being stuck in the dark for days due to outages, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Ned Lamont, respectively, announced that their states will be entering a State of Emergency effective Wednesday, Aug. 5.
There are more than 700,000 outages still being reported in both states more than 24 hours after the storm sent power lines, poles, and trees flying with wind gus…
Isaias: All But Eight Customers Are Without Power In This Town In Region
Some communities were hit harder than others when Tropical Storm Isaias ravaged the region.
In Connecticut, in the town of Roxbury, in Litchfield County, all but eight of Eversource’s 1,352 customers were reporting outages more than 24 hours after the storm struck, among the hardest-hit areas in Connecticut.
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As of late Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 5, 99.41 of Eversource’s customers in Roxbury were still reporting outages, the second-largest percentage across the state, behind only Andover, where all 1,430 of the utility comp…
Isaias: Some Rockland Residents May Be Without Power A Week, Day Says, Comparing Storm To Sandy
Tropical Storm Isaias knocked out power to nearly half of Rockland County residents, some of whom may be without power for around a week in a weather event that's been compared to Superstorm Sandy.
More than 100,000 of Orange & Rockland Utilities’ 301,917 customers were still in the dark as of 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, as crews worked to repair 2,785 reported active outages.
Rockland County Executive Ed Day said that the tropical storm took an unexpected turn, with it bringing damaging winds approaching 80 mph, not the heavy rain that had previously been forecast.
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