Orange and Rockland Utilities Restoring Service to Remaining 7,000 Of the 15,000 Customers Who Lost Power Overnight in Severe Storm
Orange and Rockland Utilities (O&R) company and overhead line contractors, tree removal experts and mutual aid line crews worked through the night repairing storm damage to restore electric service to about 8,000 of the approximately 15,000 customers whose power was knocked out overnight when heavy, windswept rain pummeled the region.
O&R crews continue to restore service today to the remaining 7,000 customers affected by the storm.
Once the weather clears enough to safely assess damage and begin electric service restoration, O&R crews will give priority to clearing downed wires blocking roads and making repairs to critical and emergency facilities (police and fire stations, and hospitals, for example) and to those locations where the repair will provide power to the largest number of customers as quickly as possible. Then, crews will restore smaller outages and individual customers’ outages.
ROCKLAND COUNTY 2,700
Clarkstown 1,900
Orangetown 350
Spring Valley 180
ORANGE COUNTY 1,955
Blooming Grove 900
Monroe -Village 300
Goshen 260
SULLIVAN COUNTY 45
Forestburgh 45
NEW JERSEY
BERGEN COUNTY 2,200
Cresskill 778
Mahwah 385
Saddle River 235
PASSAIC COUNTY 398
Ringwood 368
West Milford 30
How to Report an Outage
If you experience a power outage, don’t assume that O&R automatically knows about it. You can report it and check to see when your lights will be back on through:
- Report an Electric Service Problem from any computer or web-based mobile device.
- O&R mobile app from your iPhone, iPad or Android device — download via Apple Store or Google Play.
- Text messaging by texting “OUT” to 69678 (myORU) or
- Call 1-877-434-4100.
For the latest information about power outages, please view O&R’s Outage Map.
