U.S.
N.Y. Power Won’t Be Fully Restored Until Late Sunday, ConEd Says
- More than 1 million remain without power in Northeast
- Governors call for investigations of utilities amid outages
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Some New Yorkers won’t have their power restored until Sunday night after Tropical Storm Isaias battered the U.S. East Coast, snapping trees, downing utility poles and leaving millions of homes and businesses in the dark.
“Damage has been extraordinary,” said Matthew Sniffen, Consolidated Edison Inc’s vice president of emergency preparedness. About 176,000 of the utility’s New York customers remained out of service at 5:15 p.m.