NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Heavy rain and windstorm crossing the New York region has caused more than 22,000 Con Edison customers to lose electric service. The company has restored service to more than 6,000 of those customers. The company anticipates that outage numbers will increase as the storm continues.
The company reports about 9,000 customers out of service in Westchester County.
Mount Vernon, Yonkers, Cortlandt and Rye are among the hardest-hit communities in Westchester.
Sound Shore Communities (as of 9 am 12/25)
- Port Chester 513
- Rye Brook 175
- Rye 804
- Mamaroneck Town 120
- Mamaroneck Village 12
- Larchmont 194
- New Rochelle 737
- Pelham 1
- Pelham Manor 1
Westchester County (as of 9 am 12/25)
- Outages 483
- Customers 11,784
The powerful, gusting winds are causing trees and branches to fall onto overhead delivery equipment, resulting in customer outages.
Con Edison urges members of the public to stay away from downed power lines. Those lines could be live.
The company has secured more than 700 contractor workers to supplement its crews in rebuilding large sections of the electric-delivery system. It is the largest number of outside workers the company has gotten in advance of a severe storm. Con Edison has also called a number of its employees back from vacation due to the storm and outages.
Repairs can take many days, especially after a severe storm.
Do not assume someone else reported an outage — always report your own outage.
Con Edison has a priority methodology which customers without power should read.
