Several thousand customers National Grid’s Hudson/Greenport/Claverack service are without power this late Friday afternoon. The company estimates on its outage map that electricity will be restored at 9:30 pm, but experience suggests adding at least a couple hours to that estimate.
One report says that some sort of mini-tornado may have ripped along 3rd Street, taking down trees and lines with it. Certainly great deal of wind and hail was observed this afternoon in town.
Some businesses closed up as a result of the outage. I’m told Spotty Dog is still serving (it is, after all, the end of the workweek). Another option while waiting out the outage might be to take the ferry across the river.
