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WPCNR THE POWER NEWS From Paul Feiner, Town Supervisor, Greenburgh. November 5, 2012:

There are now 6,350 Con Ed customers out of power in Greenburgh—down from over 9000 after the storm.  Con Ed has assigned 8 crews to the town today and a muni crew. There may be additional crews in the area that are not reporting to the command center.The crews will be working near schools – trying to restore power to all schools  (they are also polling places).  People who live near schools will probably benefit from the power restoration.

Con Ed has assigned a liaison to the town – someone who works at our command center. The liaison resides in the town of Greenburgh. He is also without power and has been without power for the entire week.   Con Ed has their own priority system. The town does not determine the order of the power restoration.   The Con Ed liaison is also frustrated by the lack of power in his house.

WE NEED MORE CREWS.  One of the major reasons why power is still out in many homes is because Con Ed gave Westchester communities only token help until this weekend. They had assigned most of their crews to NYC first. I have written to the NYS Public Service Commission asking them to investigate the restoration efforts. Can’t understand why Con Ed doesn’t hire retirees, licensed electricians who work for the state. Can’t understand why different crews can’t work around the clock. I’m as upset and as frustrated as everyone else –and aggravated because people, especially the elderly and disabled are suffering.

The library is open tonight till 9 PM in Greenburgh.

The Theodore Young Community Center is open 24 hours a day –as an overnight shelter. THANK YOU, CERT team for volunteering.

We have house angels offering to help out – and to provide housing in their homes. E mail me if you’re interested. [email protected].

Paul Feiner

WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. November 4, 2012 6 P.M. E.S.T.:

As dusk shrouded White Plains ushering in another cold night, at the 5 o’clock hour, Con Edison reported some progress on Sunday in trimming the Westchester County outages to 84,680 customers as of 5:50 P.M. 

In White Plains the customers suffering a 7th straight day has been cut to 6,932 from 7,318 as of 10 A.M. this morning. There were some houses with power along North Street south of Ridgeway, but homes on the east side of lower North Street were Dark. Mayor has confirmed as of midday Con Ed is still providing only one cut-and-clear crew.

In his daily Update issued  via telephone at 12 noon Sunday, Mayor Thomas Roach told residents gasoline continued to be delivered throughout the city and that the supply chain is in place. (Editor’s Note: 90 cars were lined up on the Hutchinson River Parkway Northbound at 5:15 to get gas the Hutch Mobil, and another 70 were lined up southbound…though this could be panic buyying.). Many residuents, the Mayor said received restoration of power yesterday, and many more should receive it today, he said.

He said “restoration began Friday, more than a dozen crews with approximately 35 bucket trucks have been assigned to White Plains outages today, similar number as yesterday. 110 streets have been cleared of gblockages (as of noon Sunday), 27 remain(ed) all involving wires requiring the presence of Con Ed., They still have provided only one cut and clear crew. (This was as of noon, Sunday.)

The Con Edison Numbers as of 6 P.M. E.S.T.: