Latest on LI power outages
A view of the storm damage on Powell Avenue in Riverhead on Sunday. Credit: Newsday/James Carbone
More than 11,600 customers across Long Island were without power as of just before noon, according to PSEG Long Island's outage map, with the vast majority in Suffolk County.
That's after severe storms rolled through the area on Saturday night, packing wind gusts of up to 87 mph.
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