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National Grid restores power to 90,700 in Upstate New York after severe storms

WSTM · last updated

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — National Grid crews worked hard Monday to restore power to over 90,700 out of the 104,300 customers living in the Upstate New York area following a severe thunderstorm and tornado over the weekend.

National Grid reports 15,000 without power in Oneida County as ‘excessive heat’ looms

Crews came from Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Brunswick, Canada are joining the over 2,500 National Grid workers in restoring power.

“This storm created an extraordinary amount of damage to our communities and to our electric system,” said Zach Butcher, National Grid’s Director of Electric Maintenance. “Cleanup, reconstruction and restoration has been and will continue to be time-consuming, and our crews will remain out there in full force to bring service back to customers as quickly and safely as possible.”

Customers living in Herkimer, Madison, and Oneida counties are projected to have their power restored by 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 24.

National Grid resources will remain in the area until every outage is fixed.

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