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General News: Cornwall Digs Out; Power Outages Continue
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| A highway department crew removes snow on Main Street. |
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| The roof collapsed on this building on Main Street in Cornwall. |
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| The porch was knocked off this apartment house on Idlewild Avenue. |
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| Having fun with this figure buried in the snow on Duncan Avenue. |
February 28, 2010
Update: By Sunday at 8 pm, many of the customers in central Cornwall and along Angola Road had their power restored. Hundreds more in Mountainville and pockets of the village and the town remain without power.
More than 4,000 customers in the greater Cornwall area remain without power on Sunday, two days after a major winter storm dumped some two feet of snow on the region.
In the village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, customers along Hudson Street saw their power turned back Saturday morning and by the end of the day a large portion of the village had power. Crews were still working to restore power to more than 700 customers in the vicinity of Mountain Road.
In Cornwall, more than 900 customers in an area from Angola Road to Route 32 still have no power. Hanging wires also impeded traffic on Angola Road. The central business district is shut down and stores at Cornwall Plaza have no power, except for CVS, which has its own generator. More than 700 customers are still in the dark in West Cornwall and Salisbury Mills.
Snow removal topped the agenda of the town and village highway crews. Main Street, in Cornwall was closed to traffic from Willow Avenue to Union Street early Saturday morning after the roof on the 19th-century building next to Hazard’s Pharmacy collapsed under the weight of the snow. Later that afternoon the street remained closed as a crew worked a front loader and back hoe to scoop up snow from the municipal parking lot and drive it down the street where it piled more than 10 feet high outside of Madison Avenue’s Clothing store.
In the village, a home on Idlewild Avenue lost its side porch in the midst of the snowstorm on Friday.
A walk through the town or village reveals the widespread damage caused by fallen trees and large branches that tore down wires and block passage on roadway. On Saturday, the sound of snow blowers filled the air, along with the hum of generators, and children, who have not attended school since last Tuesday, played outside, sledding and making snowmen with the wet, heavy snow.
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