Where Are The Last Outages In Putnam

PUTNAM COUNTY, NY — Five days after Tropical Storm Isaias tore through the Hudson Valley, leaving half a million customers without power, NYSEG reported 1,731 outages in Putnam County, down from more than 33,000 Putnam customers out in its service area.

NYSEG is also working on 1,446 customers out in Dutchess County and 1,655 customers out in northern Westchester, as well as a handful out in Erie, Niagara and Sullivan counties and 112 in Washington County.

Here's where the Putnam County outages were as of 10 a.m.:

• Brewster village - 2
• Brewster portion of Patterson - 92
• Brewster portion of Southeast - 188
• Carmel town portion of Carmel - 115
• Kent town portion of Carmel - 748
• Putnam Valley town portion of Carmel - 3
• Southeast town portion of Carmel - 5
• Holmes - 14
• Lake Peekskill - 114
• Mahopac - 73
• Patterson - 112
• Putnam Valley - 191

Putnam County officials said that towns are handing out water and ice. Check with your town.

On Saturday morning, NYSEG announced its plans for the weekend:

While the company previously announced that it expects to restore 95% of customers by 11 p.m. on Monday, NYSEG is working hard to improve its restoration targets and restore power sooner.

Details of Saturday’s work plan include:

Decentralized Approach: Recognizing the challenges of communications and operations given the widespread devastation, the company will move to a decentralized operation. As a result, the company will be better positioned to provide increased communications with local municipalities and customers. As part of the decentralized structure, the company will run hyper-localized operations in each county within the service division. While a centralized operation was beneficial at the start of the event and as crews restored the backbones of the system, decentralizing for the remaining operation will allow for better collaboration of operations and communications.
Restoration Work: Due in part to the massive field presence that the company has built, NYSEG has assigned restoration crews to all remaining circuits. In many cases, some circuits may have multiple crews. To ensure operational efficiency, the company has also planned for “runners” to collect information from crews at multiple points throughout the day so that the company can closely analyze completed and ongoing work, and make tactical changes if necessary.
In addition to restoration crews, the company plans to dispatch service crews to fix and connect downed service wires that connect customers’ homes to the circuit. Typically, this task is left until the end of a restoration effort. However, the company is proactively working to complete these restorations in parallel to the larger distribution restoration to help improve overall restoration times.
The most significant hurdle that the company will work to overcome today is the large amount of broken poles. While crews worked throughout the overnight period to set poles in locations that will allow more efficient restorations today, a significant number of poles remain. Some are located in more remote areas that suffered devastating damage.
However, as part of the work plan for today, the company has included an aggressive pole setting operation that should be able to set more than 150 poles today.
While the company will have crews on every remaining circuit, the company reiterated that repairs in many pockets of the service area will take significant time. Due to the extensive damage sustained as a result of the storm, some areas of the system require a complete rebuild of the network, while others remain heavily damaged.
Critical Facilities and Municipal Priorities: Any remaining critical facilities that have not already been restored will be completed today. The company has also created a “strike force” team to respond to municipal emergencies that may arise throughout the day, ensuring that restoration crews can focus on the work at hand, while any municipal emergencies are responded to.
Crew Information: NYSEG will supply the Town of Bedford three make safe crews today. All
other municipalities have released their assigned crews back to the company. As noted earlier, the company will assign restoration crews to every remaining circuit, with many having multiple crews assigned to it.
COVID-19: Recognizing that many residents are currently home due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, for everyone’s safety, the company asks customers to observe a six foot social distance if they must be near workers and always remain outside the work zone.
Allowing crews to remain uninterrupted and focused on their work enables workers to determine damage and make repairs more quickly and safely.