Saturday, October 29, 2011

The unusually early snowstorm bringing heavy, wet snow to the tri-state area has knocked out power to thousands of customers and caused delays at all three major airports.

New York City has seen sporadic power outages while further north the outages have been more severe centered near Poughkeepsie and Newburgh. Scattered outages have been reported in New Jersey.

In Connecticut, utilities reported more than 200,000 without service.

Late Saturday afternoon, the following power utilities were reported.

Con Edison: 
Staten Island: 12,461 
Brooklyn: 31 
Queens: 448 
Manhattan: 3 
Bronx: 6,113 
Westchester: 35,789

LIPA (Long Island Power Authority): 
1,181 customers without power

JCP&L (Jersey Central Power and Light: 
190,000 customers without power

PSEG:

200,000 customers without power

The airports are reporting delays due to the storm.

JFK: 
Due to the storm and low ceilings, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving John F Kennedy International Airport. This is causing some arriving flights to be delayed an average of 5 hours and 16 minutes. To see if you may be affected, select your departure airport and check "Delays by Destination".

NEWARK: 
Due to weather and snow and ice, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving Newark International Airport. This is causing some arriving flights to be delayed an average of 6 hours and 14 minutes. To see if you may be affected, select your departure airport and check "Delays by Destination".

LAGUARDIA: 
LGA is experiencing delays of 15 minutes or less on arrivals and departures.

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