As of 4:25 p.m. Tuesday, more than 528,000 people throughout the state are still without power.
Patch is receiving constant updates from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and will update this list throughout the day.
Here's the status of outages in the state as of this afternoon:
Power Outage Update:
*Total customers without power (statewide): 528,160:
- LIPA: 270,264
- Con Edison: 41,409
- National Grid: 50,135
- NYSEG: 88,305
- Central Hudson: 56,896
- Orange & Rockland: 21,151
Con Edison is reporting that 90 percent Westchester customers will have power back by Sept. 1 O&R is estimating that 95 percent of its customers will have power back by Friday. NYSEG estimates that 90 percent of its customers in northern Westchester should have power back by Friday night.
The story has been updated with the latest state information. NYSEG has restored power to 129,500 customers.
To Darb's comment - I think that this would be a great opportunity for federal government stimulus spending and help create jobs. When disaster strikes, this creates an unexpected sudden stimulus of sorts as federal funds are dispersed to help communities desperately try to piece their lives together. Having a planned, centralized effort towards preventing such unseen consequences by putting our electrical lines seems like a much more civilized approach.
We never lose gas or water by the way, since they are both distributed safely underground.