About 700 NYSEG customers in Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester counties remained without power as of 4:30 p.m. today in the wake of yesterday’s severe thunderstorms, the utility is reporting at its website. That’s down from a peak of around 25,000 outages immediately following the evening rush-hour storms. According to the… Read More →
Source: NYSEG.com
Roughly 9,000 customers in New York State Electric & Gas’s Brewster Division remain without power after yesterday’s severe thunderstorms. That includes 1,187 customers in Westchester County and 3,618 in Putnam, as of 11:40 a.m. The Brewster Division includes parts of Putnam, Dutchess and northern Westchester counties. Nearly all of the… Read More →
For Yorktown official’s, it was a perfect storm: light and fluffy and falling on a weekday. Those factors combined to minimize clean-up costs. “Because it wasn’t a Sunday, and we didn’t have to use as much material,” said Highway Superintendent Eric DiBartolo, who put the storm’s total cost the town… Read More →
The clean-up is going well in Yorktown, Yorktown Highway Superintendent Eric DiBartolo had workers report at 9 p.m. last night for what amounted to about 12 inches of snow in Yorktown. That early start translated to about nine hours overtime for his crew, DiBartolo said. “So far — and I… Read More →