Almost 8,000 Customers Still Out Of Power In Putnam

There are 7,798 customers still without power in Putnam County, NYSEG reported at 9:23 a.m.

Dry Ice and water is being made available to customers still affected by the outages caused by Tropical Storm Isais, Putnam officials said. Residents should contact their local municipality for distribution information. Each municipality will establish their own location and schedule.

The utility company restored another 4,000 customers overnight. At 11:30 p.m. Friday, Putnam Emergency Services reported that 2 out of 3 outages from Tuesday — when 33,000 of its 36,000 customers in Putnam lost power — had been fixed.