WPCNR THE POWER NEWS. MARCH 18, 2010: Con Edison did not release a status report as of yet this morning but the utility with the aid of  hundreds of out-of-state private contractors and an undetermined number of public utlities from out of the area appears on target to withstoring all of Westchester by Friday morning.

Pockets of the powerless still exist in White Plains. At 8:45 A.M. Thursday morning 801 White Plainsians still had no power. Across the county, Con Edison and its fleet of reinforcements had trimmed outages by approximately 20,000 since yesterday. Total Westchester customers (not total people) without electricity had been trimmed to 7,226 as we approach 9 A.M.

In White Plains, Hazelton Dr was repowered Wednesday by late afternoon and Gedney Farms (Esplanade area) is up.

Greenburgh is now the county leader in outages,  number one to be restored with 3,121  unconnected with approximately 3,000 powered Wednesday; Yonkers is next with 3,089; Irvington, 2,038; Mount Vernon, 1,295; Scarsdale still 5 days into the restoration, has 1,414  customers out of service, followed by Harrison, 1,140, and New Rochelle,988.  Dry ice is again being distributed by Con Edison in the Saxon Woods Pool Parking Lot today.

Scanning the county on the Con Edison Storm grid: The Tarrytowns have 821 out, Rye City,373; North Castle, 97; Pelhams, 49; Eastchester, 417; Dobbs Ferry, 379; Bronxville, 355; Ardsley, 41; Hastings, 346.

WPCNR estimates that of the 79,000 customers Con Ed counted at the height of the outages that approximately half of Westchester's residents lost power (500,000).