11,000 without power on Long Island for third day
Photo credit: William Perlman | Workers cut a downed tree on Oxford Blvd Friday morning, the day after the storm blew through Great Neck. (June 25, 2010)
LIPA crews are working for a third day to restore power to thousands of mainly northwest and central Nassau customers hit hard by a severe thunderstorm Thursday that downed trees and power lines, officials said.
The Long Island Power Authority reported 11,039 outages Islandwide Saturday morning. That was down from about 25,000 outages Thursday, according to LIPA outage tracking charts.
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