Heavy rain and thunderstorms pummeled the region early Thursday morning, knocking out power to thousands of Orange & Rockland customers. O&R’s Diane Rainey says overhead line crews and tree removal experts, and the company’s emergency response team got to work around 7am…
As of this morning, there’s just a handful of outages remaining in Orange and Passaic counties. The National Weather Service said where the damage was worst in the Orange County village of Greenwood Lake, was reportedly from straight-line winds, not a tornado or microburst.