Suburb dwellers love their trees, but they don’t love power failures, that’s for sure. Clarkstown was hit particularly hard during last week’s wild weather, but most had their power restored pretty quickly. Supervisor George Hoehmann says where it’s possible, overhead wires should be hardened and brought underground to prevent future outages…
In Rockland County, more than 13,000 customers lost their power Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, with Clarkstown among the hardest hit community with a third of those whose power was knocked out.