New York State Electric and Gas Corp. says almost all of its customers now have power thanks to crews that came from as far away as Texas, Minnesota and Canada to help out. WAMC’s Dave Lucas reports.
NYSEG says all polling places, schools and health care facilities have electricity in its suburban coverage area north of New York City.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had singled out NYSEG while criticizing all utilities for poor efforts to restore service to more than 2 million New Yorkers after Superstorm Sandy. NYSEG says Tuesday nearly 94,000 of the almost 105,000 customers hit by outages now have power.
It says 3,400 crew members and others under contract are working 17-hour shifts. They come from British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas and Minnesota.
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