Hundreds of Hudson Valley power crews spent Friday fighting their way through snow-covered roads and downed trees to restore power to customers, and they had to do it without much help from neighboring utility companies, which are dealing with storm-related problems of their own.
Some 147,000 Central Hudson Gas & Electric customers and 26,000 Orange and Rockland Utilities customers were without power Friday, and power company workers flashed IDs showing they were in essential vehicles to get through roads closed by state and local officials.
Late in the afternoon, some neighboring utility companies, after determining they were clear of the storm, released crews to lend a hand, and local utility companies put them to work. Still, it will be the middle of next week before power is fully restored.
"It's very difficult to get out to the sites, so it's very slow going," said O&R spokesman Michael Donovan. "We find the largest outages and fix those first, so someone who has damage that affects 1,000 customers is going to be fixed before someone with damage that affects 10 customers."
Steve Wolfson's power went out late Thursday or early Friday, and he and his wife have been without heat or running water since.
By 3 p.m. Friday, the temperature in their home in Montgomery was 51 degrees. Their only water is in a pair of 45-gallon drums in the basement. The Wolfsons, who are customers of NYSEG, have been following the news on a battery-powered radio, but the only updates on power restoration have come from Central Hudson.
"I called NYSEG, and the only information they gave out is 'sometime next week,'" Steve Wolfson said. "Basically, I'm in the dark."
The American Red Cross and local officials opened shelters to give people without power a warm place to spend the night.
By mid-afternoon Friday, about four people were taking advantage of a shelter at the Kerhonkson firehouse, but about 30 more were expected, including residents of a neighboring senior citizens' home, said Alan Pfeiffer, a volunteer with the Adirondack-Saratoga Red Cross who came down to help.
In Sullivan County, a shelter at Mamakating Town Hall was supposed to open but didn't because residents did not want to use it, said Sullivan County Manager David Fanslau.
Most power companies are members of regional utility organizations that provide assistance to each other in case of major power outages. O&R has gotten some help from companies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and Central Hudson was expecting crews to arrive Saturday from National Grid.
But the sheer magnitude of the storm damage has meant they've also had to bring in private contract crews.
"Even utilities in neighboring states are being impacted by the storm," Central Hudson spokesman John Maserjian said, "so they too are not releasing their crews, understandably."
A recording when calling one of the power companies' outage report lines says it all: "All circuits are busy. Please try your call again later."
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