2,200 start day without electricity in Orleans
Kelly Albone sent in this photo of a tree that was knocked down on North Gravel Road in Medina. Many trees toppled from the powerful winds on Sunday.
There are 2,258 National Grid customers in Orleans County without electricity this morning, as of 5:30 a.m. The outages include Kendall’s elementary and junior-tenor high schools.
The utility company has made progress restoring electricity in the county. There were about 4,500 customers without power at 6:15 p.m. on Sunday.
National Grid said it is assessing the condition of the outages in Orleans. The company has 31,914 customers without electricity in upstate, out of about 1.6 million customers.
As of 5:30 this morning, customers without electricity include 19,824 in Erie County, 4,397 in Niagara, 1,488 in Genesee, and 1,223 in Wyoming.
