New York power outage: Nor’easter knocks out power for nearly 200,000 customers
The late-season storm left hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast without power Tuesday, with the Empire State the most affected.
In the last 24 hours, the storm wreaked havoc over 11 New York counties, from the southern tier up to the north country, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who spoke at a briefing at the Broome County Emergency Operations Center.
“I do want to acknowledge that this was a very serious event, as I said, resulting in a dramatic amount of families, homes, businesses, schools, hospitals, at least temporarily displaced and dealing with the lack of power,” Hochul said.
As many as 350,000 homes were without power at some point during the storm, but 200,000 now had power restored, according to Hochul. Officials hope crews will restore everyone’s power in the next three days, she said.
A gale warning remains in place from Long Island northward along the New England coast. The weather service says during the warning, which is in effect until 8 a.m. ET, some areas will see seas as high as 15 feet.
“Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility,” the weather service said.
While the storms often impact coastal areas, this week’s nor’easter tracked much farther to the west, meaning precipitation in coastal cities arrived as rain while inland locations received heavy, wet snow.
Before arriving to the Northeast, the storm dropped heavy rain across the Carolinas and mid-Atlantic coast.
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