Orange & Rockland company and contractor overhead line crews, tree removal experts and more than 140 additional mutual aid line technicians worked overnight to restore power to almost 20,000 of the nearly 46,000 customers whose power was knocked out by heavy rain and strong wind gusts that continue to pummel the region today .
The mutual aid crews obtained by O&R have doubled O&R’s emergency field response resources and O&R employees have been recalled from vacation to aid in the service restoration effort.
In Rockland County there were 13,335 customers out as of this morning, with the three hardest hit communities including Clarkstown (5,776), Orangetown (2,603) and Airmont (1,285).