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 […]
Power went off for more than 1,900 Rochester Gas and Electric Customers in Greece and Irondequoit this morning. The majority of the outage was in Greece, in the area bounded by Dewey Avenue, Latta Road, Fetzner Road and English Road. RG&E said everything should be back on by 11:30. Many people were on before that. […]