PEEKSKILL, N.Y. Route 9A remained closed due to extensive flooding between Peekskill and Buchanan, and it remains unclear if the road will be open by Monday morning.
Other roads in and around the city were open as of Sunday evening. While several isolated neighborhoods lost power for several hours due to Tropical Storm Irene, the vast majority of residents had power throughout Saturday night into Sunday morning, according to Con Edison.
The largest outages occurred around Oregon Road near the Cortlandt border, the Maple Row area, and the Lakeview Avenue and Watch Hill neighborhoods. Some residents in those areas were still without power as of Sunday afternoon, according to Con Edison.
The City of Peekskill declared a state of emergency at 10 p.m. Saturday and opened a shelter at Peekskill High School for those who needed to escape the storm. Director of City Planning Anthony Ruggiero said a handful of individuals did take advantage of the shelter, which was closed after they left Sunday morning.
The state of emergency was lifted as of 4 p.m. Things went pretty well, Ruggiero said. There were some street flooding and trees down but we were on top of it.
Peekskill Police Spokesman Sergeant Ray Henderlong said there had been a few road closings due to flooding and fallen trees and that the fire department had been out doing courtesy pump-outs of residents flooded basements. He said that Con Edison had not contacted the police department on Sunday for aid.
Water Street remained closed due to flooding until the late afternoon. The flooding forced Jan Peek House Homeless Shelter Executive Director Jeanne Blum to do something she had never had to do before: close the shelter.
We evacuated it yesterday morning, Blum said. We knew the weather was going to be bad and we wanted our people to be safe.
Blum said she had to call a locksmith to install a lock on the door since it had never had to be locked from the outside before. The 16 residents staying at the shelter were relocated to the Grasslands shelter in Valhalla, she said.
Blum said staff would return Monday morning to get the shelter ready for residents to return as soon as they could. Blum also managed to take several photos of the flooded Water Street area and other parts of the city Sunday morning, which she shared with The Daily Peekskill. They can be seen in the photo gallery above.
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