Power Outage: NYSEG Says 8,600 Putnam Customers Are in the Dark

Repair crews are hoping to have power restored by 8 or 10 p.m. Sunday to the roughly 4,500 Brewster and Southeast residences that lost it during afternoon storms.

The New York State Electric and Gas Company listed the outages, which were affecting about 8,600 customers across Putnam County, around 4:40 p.m. They were reportedly contained to the Brewster, Carmel, Kent, Patterson, Putnam Valley and Southeast.

Click here to learn more about the outages.

The National Weather Service is calling for scattered showers and thunderstorms through the rest of the afternoon and into the evening in Brewster. Expect "heavy rainfall" as the day continues.

Learn about the flood advisory the agency issue here and click here for the hazardous weather advisory.

Brewster and Southeast residents — do you have power? If not, when did you lose it? How are you keeping busy?