WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. From The Mayor's Office. March 14, 2010: Communications Director Antoinette Biordi of White Plains, reported today that White Plains Police responded to 1,200 calls for assistance, that 6 trees had crashed into homes, and approximately 50 trees were down across the city.

Ms. Biordi reported that Mayor Adam Bradley toured the hardest hit areas of the city: Soundview, North Street and Smith Avenue, and said, "It's clear, this is one of the worst storms to hit the city since the microburst of four years ago. You have a bad combiantion of saturated ground and wind bursts of 66 miles per hour."

Biordi said police would have a Special Traffic Detail handling rush hour Monday morning. She reports that the Mayor will be meeting with his commissioners at 3 P.M. this afternoon to assess the current situation and plan the city's next move.

Biordi said the Department of Public Works is awaiting Con Edison crews to take care of the live wires down in the city. She said Con Edison may have some outages taken care of by Tuesday, but it may take until the end of the week to restore all power to White Plains.

Con Edison, according to a news release this morning is calling in out of state crews as is customary in these situations, to detail the massive outages affecting 70,000 customers in Westchester County