August 28, 2011 - New York - Hurricane Irene rolled into our area on Sunday bringing rain and high winds most of the day. The high winds caused trees to be ripped from the ground and created quite a mess for residents who had debris littering their yards.
Hurricane Irene was responsible for leaving about 945,000 New Yorkers without power Monday morning, with a bulk of the outages occurring in the Catskill and Albany regions. National grid reported a statewide total of 124,931 outages statewide.
However, in Wayne and Cayuga Counties, the loss of power was less widespread than other parts in the state. National Grid reports that in Oswego County, there were 1,854 customers served for power outages in the Town and Village of Hannibal.
In Cayuga County, National Grid only mentioned outages in Niles and Sennett. The National Grid, NYSEG, and RG&E did not list any outages or calls in Wayne County, which means that Wayne County dodged widespread outages that affected the rest of the state.
As of press time, RG&E did not respond to an inquiry about the Wayne County outages. The outages that were reported in Hannibal were already completely resolved by Tuesday morning.
