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YORKTOWN, N.Y. - Power was restored Thursday to dozens of businesses in Yorktown Heights nearly three days after being shut down by Hurricane Sandy.
Many Commerce Street, Triangle Center and Underhill Avenue business have reported a return of power, including Turco's, 7-Eleven, and Southside Grille & Inn.
The Jefferson Valley Mall has also regained power and re-opened.
Despite the business openings, more than 10,000 Yorktown residents are still without power.
An estimated 5,355 of the 6,463 NYSEG customers, and 5,935 of the 8,173 Con Edison customers served in Yorktown are without power as of 2:45 p.m. Thursday, down from 5,971 and 6,099 earlier in the morning, according to outage maps.
Original story:
YORKTOWN, N.Y. – An estimated 5,971 of the 6,463 NYSEG customers, and 6,099 of the 8,173 Con Edison customers served in Yorktown are without power as of 5 a.m. Thursday, down from 6,461 and 5,919 Wednesday, according to outage maps.
Officials with NYSEG and Con Ed could not determine Thursday morning when customers could expect power restoration.
“Our work is going to take considerable time – it is going to be a long duration event, particularly in the hardest-hit areas – but we are confident in our people and our plan,” said NYSEG officials in a press release. “We understand that being without power is inconvenient for our customers, and our goal is to restore service safely and as quickly as possible.”
More than 165,000 customers out of 348,198 total customers served by Con Ed in Westchester are out of power as of 5 a.m. Thursday, down from more than 180,000 customers Wednesday morning. More than 28,637 customers out of 32,524 total customers served by NYSEG in Westchester are out of power as of 5 a.m. Thursday.
The previous record number of storm outages in Con Edison territory occurred in 2011, when Hurricane Irene caused about 203,000 customers to lose service, according to the release.
Comments (7)
I just got my power back today! I'm in the northeast corner of town, off Curry Street. Came on around 1pm based on the time on some clocks and my heating system.
I want to send out a special thank you to all the emergency workers here in Yorktown, and especially the officers of the Yorktown Police Department. I also want to thank those of the highway department. When the rubber hits the road, they are there for us.
12,000...that's the approx the same amount of residents of the over 40,000 who vote.
The towns residents, con-ed and the town need to do a better job of making sure trees are not near power lines. The Town of Yorktown has been operating the same way for too many years the same way and needs to put some $$ into the infrastructure. Modernization so we all could live in the 21st century.
I think if they did # of residents out it would be much closer to 40,000.
You always hear about the utilities wanting to trim trees, and people get upset and protest. Maybe it's time to start cutting down the trees that are near power lines, not just trimming them. I wonder how many of the people who protested the trimming are without power now? And what can the town do to improve the electric infrastructure? Should they go out trimming trees? They can't start playing with electric lines.
My son goes to school in Delaware, which is right where the worst part of the storm hit. His school told him to come home but he decided to stay there. It was a wise choice. He never lost power.
I don't share the same confidence in your plan, NYSEG.
At this point, nearly three days AFTER the storm has subsided, I'm not seeing much (if any) improvement in restoration. Frankly, just driving around in the area, I still see lines down on major roads (like Rt. 6 in Jefferson Valley), and at this rate, of restoring power to dozens of homes a day, it will be weeks before restoration is completed.
Very disappointing response guys! It's not like this storm was unexpected. Central Hudson, which serves Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster counties are doing a far superior job with far fewer resources than the collective ConEd and NYSEG crews.
It seems like the Con Ed numbers are going UP, not DOWN.