The lights are beginning to shine again in Syosset and Woodbury.
According to Long Island Power Authority's outage map, 3,350 Syosset homes remain without power as of Saturday, down from 7,420 on Wednesday. In Woodbury, 1,858 homes are still in the dark, down from 3,434 Wednesday.
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LIPA has taken much post-Sandy criticism, especially after it was announced that full restoration would likely take more than a week. Nicholas Lizanich, VP of operations at LIPA, said the unprecedented effects of Sandy have placed the latest restoration target to next weekend.
Lizanich also said that about half of the affected customers had power restored as of Friday. Syosset and Woodbury by comparison were at just over 50 percent restoration as of Saturday.
Are you still in the dark at home? In what section of town do you live? Are you keeping your hopes up? Tell us in the comments below.
This is ridiculous!
Kazi
I will seriously consider going off grid after this. Solar combined with a gas line powered generator should suffice. My parents live in Freeport - incorporated village with own electric. Their bill last month - $43. My bill $328. Their power - on all the time. My power - goes out when a resident sneezes too hard. A short term solution would be for LIPA to cut down all high risk trees in our backyards in Syosset that imperil utility poles, lines and transformers. I suggested this to a fellow resident and he said but they are so nice. Wake up people! Pretty trees or freezing, powerless nights? Replant with smaller safer trees. Where is LIPA? Where is LIPA? Where are they? No one's seen a truck yet, noo truck, nooo truck yet. Sitting in the cold now, boy this sucks, boy this sucks....(sung to tune of frere jacques) Peace - the cold is affecting my mind....
It's 1 week now since Central Syosset has lost power. I still cant speak to a LIPA customer service representative to get a proper status update, that's unacceptable. They should be answering calls to address our questions and concerns. They need to stop the avoidance game asap! I wonder if we put some pressure on our politicians if they could make Hervey step down.
Clearview Village - We are still out of power and it is night 8. It is getting cold. We are on Westminster Road. Where are you LIPA? Please help. I'm very worried about my neighbor, who is very sick:(