Long Island Power Outages Top 338K After Isaias Strikes

Ryan Bonner
Updated ·2 min read

Tropical Storm Isaias, with wind gusts approaching 80 mph, knocked out power to a third of all PSEG Long Island customers Tuesday. At 9 p.m., there were 338,076 outages on the island, according to the PSEG outage map.

"Tropical Storm Isaias was one of the strongest storms to hit our service territory in recent years, and some outages could last for an extended period," PSEG said.

The number of outages may be higher than reported as many Long Islanders have had trouble reporting outages on PSEG's website or via phone.

"We have down wires and we can’t get through on phone or through text to report them," a PSEG customer wrote on Facebook. "We have been trying for more than 4 hours and we have young children in our home with live wires on the front lawn."

Response and power restoration times could be delayed due to COVID-19 and its impact not only on the availability of mutual aid, but also because of PSEG's own extensive health and safety protocols related to the coronavirus, PSEG said.

"More than 2,000 personnel are actively assessing damage and restoring power safely and as quickly as possible," the company said.

Send photos or videos of storm damage to ryan@patch.com and note the location.

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This article originally appeared on the Port Washington Patch