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CROTON-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. Residents and village officials remained uncertain about when power would be restored to the most complicated restoration job in Croton on lower Brook Street near Riverside Avenue. Nearly one-third of the village is still without power following Saturday's freak snowstorm.
Weve been staying at a friends house up on the hill, so its been okay, but I havent been sleeping, said Bill Bird, a lower Brook Street resident. Birds home remains entangled in wires after two telephone poles snapped in half during the snowstorm and also downed an enormous tree. Brook Street remained closed as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Clearly the Brook Street job is more complicated than simply putting a line back on a pole, said Croton Mayor Leo Wiegman. When asked if the Wednesday restoration was realistic for Brook Street residents, Wiegman said, I dont think they necessarily know either, when power would be restored to those residents. The supervisor for the Brook Street job is a Croton resident and the mayor said the high priority of the job had been made clear to the supervisor.
Wiegman also added that Brook Street would be essentially starting from scratch. Along with replanting telephone poles and transformers, utilities companies also have to coordinate their efforts. In other words, Con Edison must coordinate with Cablevision and Verizon to repair all the various lines.
Con Edison is estimating that the vast majority of Croton will have power by 11:59 p.m., Wednesday night.
Abraham Zambrano, Village manager, said out-of-state Con Edison crews were working 13 hour days to complete work on Brook Street as quickly as possible.
Bird said that progress on Brook Street has been nearly nonexistent.
They finally cut down the tree last night, but other than that theyve done nothing, he said, adding that he's not optimistic about Con Edisons Wednesday night power restoration estimates. I dont think thats going to happen.
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