The Hudson Valley Press is reporting that community shelters have been set up in Athens, Taghkanic, Kerhonkson, and Hurley for those without power and needing to get warm. Click this link for details.
[UPDATE: The Taghkanic shelter has closed, evidently because power is restored in most, though definitely not all, of Columbia County.]Meanwhile, friends in Spencertown report that they are not only without power, but that trying to get through to NYSEG to report their outage is nearly impossible; all they get is a recording. Another friend suggested trying their Clifton Park office at (518) 664-9534. Still another had some success in the past with dialing NYSEG’s (800) number, then pressing the button for “no” when asked if you’re calling about your service address. (Ah, the joys of an emergency in the era of automation...)
Central Hudson (according to the Daily Freeman) is giving out bottled water and dry ice at various distribution points to residents without power in Dutchess, Greene and Ulster counties.
National Grid maintains a Storm Outage page and maps of where power is out, plus estimates of restoral times. But of course those without power probably aren’t reading this.
