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Storm With Damaging Winds Prompts All-Hands Response From Fire Departments, Utility Companies
Some 500 residents across the area dealing with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and stay home orders remain without power following the storm system that ripped through the area.
The storms, which caused winds gusting as high as 60 mph toppling trees, as well as flooding, and downed trees and utility lines, also caused widespread power outages, starting Monday morning, April 13.
By Wednesday, April 15, all area utility companies, including Central Hudson, Con Ed, NYSEG, and O&R, reported they expected to have most outages back up and running by later in the day.
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Thousands Without Power As Storm Slams Putnam
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Thousands are without power in Westchester and Putnam as a line of severe storms battered the area with heavy downpours, damaging winds and hail just as the evening commute began on Tuesday.
As of 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, NYSEG reported 22,081 outages among its 32,806 customers in the areas it serves in Northern Westchester.
In Putnam, 27,705 of 38,310 customers were without power.
Con Ed reported 325 outages impacting 5,015 customers, including more than 300 customers in Sleepy Hollow, Ossining, Cortlandt, Eastchester, Irvington, Ossining, Yonkers and Bedford…
