Ulster County Power To Be Restored By Noon Monday

MID-HUDSON VALLEY, NY — Nearly 62,000 Central Hudson electricity customers had service interrupted Friday because of a relentless ice storm in the Hudson Valley.

The vast amount of damage was to customers in Ulster County, where, as of Saturday morning, more than 41,000 still remain without power.

In a statement, Central Hudson said the storm brought snow and ice to the region Thursday night and most of the day Friday. In some areas, more than 0.6 inches of radial ice, which is a measurement of ice around an object such as a power line or tree branch, fell, causing trees and tree limbs to fall onto power lines, interrupting electric service.

Central Hudson said it expects to have power restored to 95 percent of impacted customers by:

• Dutchess County: noon Saturday
• Orange County: noon Saturday
• Sullivan County: 10 p.m. Sunday
• Ulster County: noon Monday

SEE ALSO:

• Dry Ice, Water Distribution Sites Announced In Ulster
• Ulster County Declares Emergency; Warming Centers Open

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that 24 members of the National Guard were deployed to Ulster County to help with its recovery and the 24/7 warming center operations.

The state also sent tree-cutting crews to impacted areas and is working with the Red Cross to provide cots, blankets, food and water to warming shelters in Ulster County.

State support to Ulster County also includes a 500kw generator for the Andy Murphy overnight warming center in Kingston and 180 cots and water for warming centers.

As of 11 a.m. Saturday, Ulster has more than 41,800 customers without electricity. The city of Kingston still has about 50 percent of its 12,500 customers in the dark.

Also affected in Ulster are:

• Saugerties: 4,905
• Ulster: 4,321
• Woodstock: 4.752
• Rosendale: 3,162
• Rochester: 2,028
• Olive: 2,800
• Hurley: 2,925
• Marbletown: 3,112

In Dutchess County, the town of North East has 154 outages and Tivoli has 79.

Orange County has 17 outages; Sullivan, 154.

NYSEG only has seven outages in Ulster County, all of which are in the town of Shandaken.

There are only one O&R customer without electricity in both Rockland and Orange counties.

Con Edison, likewise, only has one customer in both Yonkers and the village of Harrison without electricity.