121K+ Westchester Electric Customers Without Power: UPDATE

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — Con Edison electricity customers who lost power because of Tropical Storm Isaias may be in for a wait to have the lights come back on. The power utility said the storm caused about 210,000 customers to lose service.

It is the second largest amount of customer outages in the company's history, according to Con Ed website.

In Westchester, out of 360,045 customers, more than 93,000 were without electricity as of 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.

Local officials said that they were being told that, given the number of outages around the county, residents are urged to plan for an extended period of time without electricity.

Yonkers seemed to take the brunt of the storm with more than 10,200 customers off the grid.

New Rochelle had a little more than 9,000. Mount Vernon had more than 6,000.

Cortlandt and the village of Mamaroneck both had more than 4,000 customers waiting for the lights to come back on.

White Plains, Yorktown, Mount Pleasant, Mount Kisco, New Castle, the town of Mamaroneck and Greenburgh all had between 3,000 and 4,000 customers without electricity.

None of the communities had estimated times of restoration listed on the Con Ed website.

In Westchester, NYSEG was showing almost 28,000 customers without electricity before 9 p.m. Tuesday.

The major outages were:

• Bedford: 3,823
• Lewisboro: 5,292
• North Salem: 2,110
• Pound Ridge: 2,334
• Somers: 8,650
• Yorktown: 5,577