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UPDATE: Outages - Thousands Restored Wednsday

Major progress made as thousands along the North Shore from Mt. Sinai to Shoreham had power restored Wednesday.

As of a 10 p.m. update from LIPA, thousands have been restored on the North Shore from Mt. Sinai to Shoreham since a 10 a.m. update Wednesday.

The following chart lists the number of affected from 11:30 a.m. Tuesday to 10 p.m. Wednesday. Over 1,100 were restored in Sound Beach Wednesday alone.

Area 11:30 a.m. Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Tuesday 10 a.m. Wednesday 10 p.m. Wednedsay Percent Restored Mt. Sinai 1,980 1,762 1,394 204 95 percent Miller Place 1,179 1,049 830 485 95 percent Sound Beach 1,802 1,604 1,269 113 97 percent Rocky Point 454 404 319 20 98 percent

In Shoreham, despite the LIPA outage map reporting just 18 without power in Shoreham Village, Mayor Roger Pijacki said Wednesday morning that most of the 199 homes in the village were still without power.

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Readers haved kept Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch updated on their power situation on Facebook the last few days.

At 10 p.m. Tuesday, Tara O'Hara said, "I'm in Rocky Point. We are still without electric!"

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Early Wednesday, Kara Kilgannon wrote, "Rocky Point-only lost power for about 2 or 3 hours Sat. evening. Never lost Cable. But many of my neighbors were still without one or both as of last night."

On Monday, many in the area began regaining power. Thomas J. Lynch said Monday at 7:40 p.m., "yes miller bluffs off north coutnry road back online (willow pond/sound breeze Drive, sea cliff) nasty trees down on NCR and on Sylvan near Echo. congrats LIPA alot faster than we expected!"

Editor's Note: Stay tuned for updated numbers throughout the week.


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