46K In Queens Still Without Power After Tropical Storm Isaias

QUEENS, NY — Roughly 46,000 Queens households were still in the dark Wednesday morning after Tropical Storm Isaias blew through New York City, and they may not see the light anytime soon.

The city's energy provider, Con Edison, was still "evaluating conditions" as of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and had no estimates for when power would return to tens of thousands of Queens residents.

"It is clear the restoration of all customers will take multiple days," Con Ed said in a statement.

An estimated 257,000 New York City households lost electricity during the storm Tuesday, when winds as strong as 71 mph sent trees and other debris crashing down onto power lines.

Con Ed called it the second-largest storm-related outage in its history, rivaled only by the 1.1 million outages caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

In southeastern Queens and along the Rockaway peninsula, more than 21,000 Con Ed customers had no power as of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Another 13,000 households in northeastern Queens and 6,000 in central Queens, including Forest Hills and Middle Village, remained in the dark.

Con Ed brought in 220 additional workers to restore power and another 100 were scheduled to start work Wednesday, the company said.

#StormIsaias’s outage is the second largest in our long history. With 257,000 customers out surpassing Hurricane Irene; we are focused on safe restoration. Click the link for all the details: https://t.co/RCgS8w99Fu #poweringthrutogether pic.twitter.com/cJzUJP2H33
— Con Edison (@ConEdison) August 5, 2020