WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. March 16, 2010: Con Edison crews working with out-of-state help, powered up 11,000 Westchester Customers since midnight Monday. Yonkers outages were trimmed by some 3,000 customers. Yonkers currently has 11,295 customers without electricity;  Mount Vernon, 7,024; New Rochelle, 6,975; Greenburgh, 6,905;  White Plains, 5,075; and Scarsdale, 4,667 (over 75% of the Con Ed customer base  is affected there.

In other afflicted areas of the county, 1,693 customers are without power in the Tarrytowns; Tuckahoe, 1,247; Rye City, 2,026; Port Chester, 479;  the Pelhams, 919; North Castle, 886; Mt. Pleasant, 1,355; Larchmont/Mamaroneck,1,860; Irvington, 2043; Hastings, 633; Harrison, 2,274; Eastchester, 2,198; Elmsford, 950; Bronxville, 459; Briarcliff/Ossining, 556 and Ardsley, 116.

At 8 A.M. Tuesday morning, Con Edison issued this communique,partially reproduced here:

"As of 6 a.m. today, the company had restored power to over 100,000 customers. Approximately 59,000 customers remained without power: 50,000 in Westchester County, 5,200 in Staten Island, 2,600 in the Bronx, 500 in Queens and 250 in Brooklyn.

The company expects to have all storm-related outages in Brooklyn and Queens restored by Wednesday morning, and the Bronx restored by Wednesday evening, followed by Staten Island on Thursday evening, and Westchester County on Friday.

Con Edison has approximately 600 restoration crews now in the field, in addition to other field support personnel clearing roads and trees.  The number of restoration crews is expected to grow to 675 by Wednesday as additional out-of-state crews arrive."

On Sunday evening,Con Edison told WPCNR that outside crews from other states were first called for assistance early Saturday evening.

Con Edison in a statement from John Miksad, to the New York Times, said the Con Edison weather forecasts had not indicated the storm being so powerful: "We had in-house forecasts that something was going to converge with winds and rain, but we didn't think it would be this much."

 Another Con Ed spokesperson, Allen Drury  said Sunday evening to WPCNR that out-of-state crews could not be called in, in advance because, they had to assure they were not needed in their own home service areas before they could leave.