Of the more than six million American homes that are waking up to darkness on Tuesday, more than 1.9 million of them are in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Twitter, the largest numbers of them in Long Island and New York City.
In Manhattan, Ms. Faber said, where pre-emptive power shutdowns by the utility to to keep floodwater from hitting live equipment account for a large number of the 230,000 customers without power, “we could see some restoration within three or four days,” Ms. Faber said.
In Manhattan, Ms. Faber said, where pre-emptive power shutdowns by the utility to to keep floodwater from hitting live equipment account for a large number of the 230,000 customers without power, “we could see some restoration within three or four days,” Ms. Faber said.
In New York City and Westchester County, where more than 670,000 Consolidated Edison customers, some of them large buildings with hundreds of residents, were dark Tuesday morning, a spokeswoman for the company, D. Joy Faber, said it would take days to restore power.
“Tidal surge caused considerable damage to equipment,” she said, and assessments need to be done.
“In other areas,” Ms. Faber added, “particularly for Westchester and Staten Island, we’ve got larger things that are going to hamper our restoration efforts,” including closed roads and the fact the utility has to wait until winds die down to send crews up to fix wires and poles.
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