NYSEG Offers Power Restoration Estimates: Nor'easter Aftermath

UPDATE, 7:30 p.m. Saturday -- NYSEG expects to have more than 90 percent of customers in the Liberty and Brewster Divisions, including the hardest hit areas in Delaware, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties, restored by 11:45 p.m. on Monday, March 5, 2018. On Saturday the utility assessed all the damage and restored power to about 20,000 customers.

The company says it will provide updates including any information involving warming centers and shelters to the general public on web and social media sites.

NYSEG customers without power as of 7:30 p.m. included:

• Dutchess - 4,731
• Orange - 30
• Putnam - 24,909
• Ulster - 2,058
• Westchester - 21,353

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As of midday Saturday, NYSEG reported a total of 99,084 customers out across New York State. That included 53,289 in the Hudson Valley.

• Dutchess - 4,593 customers out, most in Beekman
• Putnam - 23,142 customers out, half of them in Carmel
• Westchester - 22,477 customers out including 8,802 in Somers and 5,562 in Yorktown
• Ulster - 3,077 customers out, most in Shandaken

Meanwhile, Westchester County officials were angry about the lack of communication overnight.

Westchester County Executive George Latimer issued this statement:

“While thousands of Westchester residents slept in homes with no heat, power or hot water and in some cases with live wires down around them- NYSEG officials stopped responding to emails and calls, and became totally unresponsive. The people of Westchester, who pay NYSEG to provide them with a service, have a right to know what NYSEG is doing to restore their power. While worker safety is a priority - NYSEG’s response has been deplorable. There should be constant communication in a storm – and that did not occur.”

PHOTO: Mahopac, NY March 3, 2018/ Lanning Taliaferro