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General News: Ice Storm Clean Up Continues
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| Damage from the ice storm was visible all over the Storm King School campus. |
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| Mineral Springs Road was still closed to traffic late Monday morning. |
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| A clean-up crew at work on Monday at Storm King School. |
December 15, 2008
Power was restored to most customers in Cornwall and Cornwall-on-Hudson by Monday morning, following an ice storm on Thursday night that threw hundreds of customers into darkness in the higher elevations of the area.
At midday on Monday, Mineral Springs Road remained closed from the turn off from Angola Road and crews, both private and public, continued to clean-up of piles of fallen branches and trees that covered many hillsides.
Storm King School, at the top of Mountain Road in Cornwall-on-Hudson, reports that it doesn’t expect to have power restored until later this week. School administrators sent students home early on Friday before exams that were scheduled for this week as crews worked all weekend to clean up the campus.
Arlene Roberts, who lives off an Angola Road, is perhaps typical of local residents who had to cope with no power this weekend. The temperature inside her home fell to 40 degrees on Friday and, with no power, the family’s water well couldn’t operate, meaning no toilets or water would run. Everything in her refrigerator went bad, she said.
“We were up all night on Friday and could hear sounds of trees breaking,” Roberts said. She said they lost six trees on their property and she described one tree whose twisted branches looked like string cheese. On Saturday, Roberts and her husband rented a small generator to power two salamander heaters and were able to raise the temperature inside to 60 degrees. Power was restored to her home on Saturday.
Cornwall town supervisor Kevin Quigley said that he went out to assess the damage Friday morning with highway department superintendent Bob Conley and the pair walked up Mine Hill Road, which had been closed due to fallen debris. Quigley said they spoke with residents who were outside cleaning up and told them the town was working to re-open the road and that, down below, Central Hudson crews were working on the power lines. "The highway guys did a tremendous job cleaning up," Quigley noted.
Quigley also went over to the senior residential complex at Idlewild Creek to listen to the residents’ concerns about lack of power then he called Central Hudson to push for a speedy restoration of service. Quigley said he urged the power company to put a high priority on the senior residence where some people were on oxygen and needed service quickly.
When the power company had not restored service as promised by 2 p.m. on Friday, Quigley said he got back on the phone and saw the situation addressed shortly after 5 p.m.
The ice storm appears to have contributed to an automobile accident on Thursday night, in which a car driven by Victoria Sparks hit a tree in the roadway on Angola Road and veered off the road and into a ditch. The driver was taken to St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital after she complained of a burn caused by the airbag when it deployed.
Cornwall police responded to at least 18 calls about fallen trees and dangling power lines across town, from Route 94 to Angola Road between Thursday evening and Friday night.
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