Utility crews worked through the night, restoring power to commercial buildings and homes left in the dark by the strong winds that ushered winter back into Rochester. Rochester Gas and Electric reported more than 14,000 outages Wednesday night, when a 64 mile per hour wind gust was reported at the airport. That was cut in […]
UPDATE: Power outages from the winter storm are now down to about 1,100 from a high of nearly 18,000 last night. Several thousand were caused by car crashes taking down power lines, and one large outage was caused by a tree falling in Webster on Lake Road. It took down several lines cutting power to […]
About 2,100 Rochester Gas and Electric customers lost power when thunderstorms swept across the region early this morning. The largest group of them were in Henrietta, where some 1,100 outages were reported. Other large outages were in Penfield, Irondequoit and Gates. RG&E says it had all but a couple of hundred reconnected by 7:00 a.m. […]