Hurricane Sandra



According to this article, restoring power is still being continued as the number one problem in Sullivan County. Around 6,000 people are still without power, slowly recovering from Hurricane Sandy. Shelters such as the Official Red Cross one at SUNY Sullivan and the Woodburne Firehouse have been in affect. oOfficials are calling for a “roundtable” meeting with NYSEG, Central Hudson, and the Orange & Rockland companies. “The utilities had time to prepare for this storm, but their response indicates that they did not,” said by Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther. “There’s a responsibility to the public that needs to be met, and this round-table discussion is about making sure that it is.” For the time being, officials, emergency responders and local citizens are contributing to the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. In this article, the hurricane negatively affected Sullivan County. Snapping trees and downing power lines on the upper Delaware Valley. By October 30th, 24,300 NYSEG customers lost power, 20,078 people in Wayne County PA and 13,705 in Pike County. Before the storm even hit, officials were warning citizens that they would most likely be without power for up to several days. In this article, by the morning of November 5th, NYSEG reported that there were about 4,800 people without power, in Sullivan County from 24,000. 1,900 Orange and Rockland customers are still without power, down from a high of 6,500. Clayton Ellis, manager of corporate communications from NYSEG said, “We began preparing for Hurricane Sandy days in advance of the storm—and we were prepared to respond. We are continuing to bring resources on board to assist with the massive restoration effort and the outage counts are continuing to decline. Each and every day since the storm hit, causing unprecedented damage to our electricity delivery system, we have worked closely with local and state officials to address critical situations. We have already discussed a follow-up meeting with Assemblywoman Gunther, and we will gladly participate in a roundtable discussion once this emergency is behind us.” The gas shortages did not just affect NYC and New Jersey, but also Sullivan County. County manager David Fanslau issued a state of emergency including “prohibition of purchasing gasoline or diesel fuel at retail locations in any quantity greater than that which would fill the vehicle, with the exception of a small container necessary to fuel a generator or similar machine, as well as an exception for Sullivan County agricultural industry support.” There was a concern that customers were filling huge tanks of gas and selling them privately. The state of emergency, including the prohibition regarding large sales of gas, was lifted on November 5.

Volunteers, Harold Greaves, left, and Lance Mercado work on removing a tree.

Over 100 trees were down in Milford.