Where outages are concentrated on LI
A PSEG Long Island worker works to restore power along Jericho Turnpike in Commack on Monday. Credit: Newsday/James Carbone
More than 3,000 Long Island customers remained without power after noon on Monday.
Some of those customers have been without power since thunderstorms and high winds on Saturday night, while others lost power more recently.
For example, an outage in Commack that began around 10:40 a.m. affected over 700 customers before being resolved.
Outages are concentrated in Hampton Bays, Flanders, Southampton Village, Riverhead, Bating Hollow, and Wading River. Each "customer" represents a bill-payer, which can be a household or a business -- so the number of individual people affected is much greater.
A tree branch knocked "a primary wire off of its insulator" to cause the Commack outage, according to a spokesperson for PSEG Long Island. Another recent outage in Hampton Bays is still being investigated.
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