power outages

NYSEG crews were called out to restore electric service across the Southern Tier following a series of strong thunderstorms.

More than 5,000 New York State Electric and Gas customers lost electric service in the wake of gusty winds.

Flash flooding resulted in the evacuation of some residents of Susquehanna County. Fast-moving water Thursday evening caused problems in Choconut, Brackney and Friendsville. Some road washouts were reported. A section of State Route 267 north of Route 706 was closed for a time...

Four people died as a result of a wind storm that tore through a rural area between Syracuse and Utica. The Syracuse Post-Standard website syracuse.com reported four homes were destroyed in Madison County shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday. The area of greatest devastation appeared to be in the town of Smithfield, about 30 miles southeast of Syracuse...

A few hundred NYSEG customers in the Binghamton region lost electric service for a time Tuesday. Shortly before 2 p.m., the utility reported 357 customers without electricity in Broome and Chenango counties. Nearly 200 of the affected customers were in the town of Maine...

Thousands of NYSEG customers in the Southern Tier lost electric service Wednesday afternoon as strong thunderstorms moved through the region. As of early afternoon, more than 1500 Broome County utility customers were without power. The hardest hit areas included the town of Fenton with 838 customers without service and the village of Port Dickinson with 249 customers lacking electricity... Read Mo

The nasty weather knocked out electric service for hundreds of Iberdrola USA customers in upstate New York but few problems were reported in the Southern Tier. A mixture of snow, freezing rain and freezing drizzle, accompanied by gusty winds, apparently triggered power interruptions in some areas...

Full electric service had been restored to hundreds of NYSEG customers in Broome and Tioga counties who lost power because of the stormy weather over the past day. Many customers along Vestal Parkway and Vestal Road lost electricity for hours early today...

Thousands of New York State Electric and Gas customers remained without electric service as a result of damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. Utility crews were making progress in restoring power but their job may not be completed for a few more days...

More than 12,000 New York State Electric and Gas customers were without electric service early this afternoon. The utility reported 12,635 customers were affected by outages. Most were in Westchester County, where almost 4,000 had no electric service...