Visit our blog News.SupplyBoys.Com An early taste of winter weather brought down tree limbs all over New York and turned off power for thousands, as wet snow from an unusual October snowstorm meant putting down the rakes and picking up the shovels. Skip to next paragraph Related stories Snow smacks Northeast; power could be out for days Heat wave Can the power grid handle it? Air conditioners whir during heat wave, but power systems hold up Topics Weather Winter Weather Protests and Demonstrations Around the state, more than 200000 customers were without power, most in the hard-hit Hudson Valleyregion of the state. Consolidated Edison reported almost 69000 customers were without power inWestchester County, as were about 4700 customers in New York City. Orange and Rockland said it had 84000 customers out in Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties. New York State Electric and Gas reported at least 52000 customers with outages, and National Grid reported at least 9300 customers out. MONITOR QUIZ: Weekly news quiz for Oct. 24-28, 2011 "I think wind is the biggest factor. The wind makes the trees wobbly and they tumble onto our lines and transformers and equipment," said ConEd spokesman Allan Drury. He said it would take several days for full restoration. In the Hudson Valley, state police evacuated motorists from numerous vehicles stuck on Interstate 84 and the Taconic Parkway overnight and took them to hotels. Police said about 50 to 75 vehicles were towed away so the ...cc

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