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LIPA outages minimal so far, spokesman says

Joe Owens works on clearing his walkway on

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Joe Owens works on clearing his walkway on Elderberry Road in Mineola. (Feb. 10, 2010)

Most Long Island Power Authority customers survived the early portion of Wednesday's winter storm quite nicely, a utility spokesman said.

"Overnight, we had about 900 customers with outages," LIPA spokesman Mark Gross said at about 7:30 a.m. "As of this morning, all but five customers are back on line."

Gross said the biggest test for the utility is ahead, as the...

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