Tuesday’s storms blew through the Capital Region leaving behind significant damage, National Grid saying Warren County was hit the worst. We're here at a dry ice distribution center where they're trying to help their customers get through the outage.
WARREN COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- As people throughout the Capital Region clean up after severe storms left damage in their wake, NEWS10 was in Warren County speaking to officials about what’s being done to help people still without power for a second night.
Tuesday’s storms blew through the Capital Region leaving behind significant damage. National Grid said Warren County was hit the worst. NEWS10's crew at a dry ice distribution center where the power company was trying to help their customers get through the outage.
“I got a freezer full of meat I'm trying to keep frozen,” said one man.
Kim Ireland, Director of External Affairs Eastern New York for National Grid says the company is doing all they can to get the power back on. As linemen continue to work on full restoration, they're supporting customers in the meantime in other ways, like handing out dry ice and bottled water. As people drove up to get their dry ice and water some said they were here getting supplies for others in need, too.
“I'm getting dry ice and water for the neighbors,” said one resident in need.
"Aren’t you a nice soul,” said NEWS10 Reporter James De La Fuente.
The resident responded, “Well, you got to take care of your neighbors, right?”
She tells NEWS10 reporter, James De La Fuente, she was just recently able to get out of her neighborhood. That's because in pictures she shared with us a tree completely blocked the roadway in front of her house. “We were actually blocked in. Our entrance was completely shut down by trees. So, I finally just got out and was able to come out in the real world.”
Ireland says this storm was extremely damaging to their system. “The damage that we saw to trees, to our infrastructure, even to our transmission facility which are larger facilities was something that we had not seen recently of that magnitude. Especially with the transmission lines.”
She says they will have restoration times soon. “It takes a long time for us to get out, do that assessment. At the same time, we are still restoring people as we do and tomorrow morning, we should be able to have restoration times in our system.”
In the village of Lake George, the storm caused an E. coli alert for Million-Dollar Beach. It is closed until the levels come down.
“They did a storm water project to alleviate some of the E. coli a few years ago. We thought it had it figured out but when you get big storms like this, a lot of water, and one of the feeders is down there. Our water, as it flows across here, it flows from the north to the south and then out to the east,” said the Village of Lake George Mayor, Ray Perry.
He goes on to say there are safe places on the lake to swim, pets included. “I did notice two tour buses full of kids and because they couldn't swim in the Million-Dollar Beach which is a state-run facility. Our beach is absolutely fine, safe, well-guarded and well attended.”
