Poll: What do you miss during power outages?
LIPA workers repair power lines in Asharoken after Tropical Storm Irene. (Aug. 28, 2011) Credit: John Dunn
As customers fumed about the scarcity of repair trucks, the Long Island Power Authority on Tuesday likened the system to a person who was hit by one, with more than 3,000 separate damage locations amounting to "significant trauma."
"If our electric system were a person, we just got run over by a truck and we have to put it back together," LIPA chief Michael Hervey said on a conference call.
At midday, 270,000 of LIPA's 1.2 million customers remained without power.
'I've never seen fire sitting on the water' Three Newsday photographers talk to NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland about covering the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996.
'I've never seen fire sitting on the water' Three Newsday photographers talk to NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland about covering the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996.
