Long Island Power – Long Island

Long Island Power Outage Map – Long Island

At 9 AM on Tuesday August 30th 2011 Long Island Power Authority said on their home page that:

Overnight Monday into Tuesday morning, we have restored service to an additional 55,000 customers.

Progress as of 9:00 AM Tuesday:

• Customers restored: 253,000
• Customers without power: 270,000

Thank you for your patience as we restore power to the 523,000 customers that were affected by the storm.

Long Island Power Outage Map at 10:07 AM on Tuesday August 30th 2011

At 10 PM on Monday August 29th 2011 Long Island Power Authority reported that:

Total of affected customers from Hurricane Irene was 523,000. As of 10 p.m. Monday, 198,000 customers have been restored. The customers that remain affected by Hurricane Irene are 325,000.

As work on critical care facilities continues, LIPA is working to repair transmission lines, high-voltage lines and distribution lines to restore power to its customers.

Earlier on Monday they said that:

Hurricane Irene has left in its wake over 523,000 outages affecting almost half of the customers on Long Island. LIPA and National Grid have already begun to address the damage to the transmission and distribution system and have restored power to 125,000 customers. The damage occurred to approximately 45% of LIPA’s system.

Fire Island was de-energized during the storm, the substations have now been re-energized and distribution is scheduled to be energized later today for Fire Island, Captree and Robert Moses.

Long Island Power Outage Map at 2 PM on Monday August 29th 2011

On Sunday August 28th 2011 Long Island Power Authority reported that:

As Hurricane Irene exits Long Island and New York City this evening, the 36 hours of heavy rain and severe winds have created significant power outages along the eastern coast, including LIPA’s service territory. At the height of the storm, approximately 500,000 customers were without power. As of 8:30 pm, 82,000 (16%) customers have been restored.

Customers may have experienced problems reaching LIPA by phone, such as a fast busy signal. Verizon, our phone carrier, experienced technical problems which were due to extraordinary call volume. LIPA continues to work with Verizon to resolve this issue and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

The majority of outages resulted from hurricane force winds uprooting trees and taking down power lines.

Long Island Power Outage Map at 10:34 AM on Sunday August 28th 2011