5,110 Still Without Power In Yonkers Thursday Morning

YONKERS, N.Y. – More than 5,000 Con Edison customers remained without power in Yonkers Thursday morning, a week-and-a-half after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the area. Wednesday’s nor’easter did not appear to have driven the number of outages back up.

About 7 percent of Con Edisons approximately 75,000 customers in Yonkers, or about 5,000 customers, were without power at 6 a.m. Thursday.
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by Christine Hall

11/08/2012 5:30 a.m.

Con Edison said that 5,110 of 75,568 Con Edison customers in Yonkers, or 7 percent, were without power at 6 a.m. Thursday, down from 5,291 Wednesday morning. The utility estimated that most North Castle customers would have power back by midnight Friday.

Across Westchester, about 10 percent of Con Ed’s nearly 350,000 customers were without power at 6 a.m. Thursday. That’s 34,033 customers in the dark, down from 36,734 Wednesday morning.

Con Ed officials said Wednesday’s nor’easter could delay their work because crews repairing overhead equipment cannot work safely in high winds.

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