Where Are the Lights?

Here is a status update from Mayor Carolyn Stevens as of 9:00 PM on Tuesday:
-Scarsdale Village Hall has power in one half of the building
-Some of the traffic control devices on Post Rd. are working but need to be reset Quaker Ridge School and -Fox Meadow School should be restored sometime tonight and Greenacres School will hopefully be restored by tomorrow.
-There should be some significant improvement by tomorrow and we have been told that most homes should have power no later than Friday.

I have spent today talking to Con Ed and expressing the Village's displeasure and frustration at the lack of any real progress. I have also spoken with Bill Ryan (our County Legislator); Suzie Oppenheimer's office (our State Senator); and Nita Lowey's office (our Congresswoman). All three have been quite helpful in reaching out to Con Edison and finally this afternoon we started to see the results of my complaining and their intervention.

At a little before noon today we had a conference call with a Con Ed Vice President for electrical services and several other Con Ed personnel to tell them that the Village had not seen any progress in four days, and that we had only one electrical crew and one gas crew yesterday. We had been promised additional crews for today but none had appeared. Late this afternoon I met with Anthony Sutton the County's Commissioner for Emergency Services and Carlos Torres of Con Ed Emergency services to discuss what Con Ed would do to help to rectify the situation. We finally started to see some crews arrive this afternoon, however they did not have any orders or grid plans but that was eventually rectified and they got to work.

As of 7:00 PM we still had 49 roads closed due to trees with power lines that have not been de-energized by Con Ed. We have crews ready to remove the trees once Con Ed cuts the power and declares it safe.