Yes, power on Long Island went around 8pm Wednesday, came back on for our part (NE) around 7pm Thursday. When the lights began to flicker now and then, I filled a big pot with water for drinking. That was a night to have the woodstove going, although I let it burn out late evening after turning in for the night. The house didn't lose more than a couple of degrees overnight. Thursday am we transferred much of the refrigerator contents to buckets of snow out on the deck, although some frozen stuff had thawed a bit. Buckets of water from the lake took care of toilet flushes and sponge bathing. Wife's after me to get going on a standby generator (again).
That NHEC map showed an area on the southern part of LI with about 60 customers still out as of late morning today. Overall they have restored about 90% of over 80,000 customers.
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