Community Corner
New Storm Creates More Outages in East Meadow
As of Wednesday night more than 3,000 East Meadow residents remained without power.
Just days after Hurricane Sandy caused thousands of residents to lose power in East Meadow, a snowstorm added more outages in the area.
As of 8:24 p.m. on Wednesday, 3,181 customers were without power, according to the Long Island Power Authority. On Wednesday morning, LIPA reported that 2,908 customers did not have power.
Thousands of East Meadow residents have been without power for the last 10 days and said that they feel abandoned by LIPA because their questions have not been answered and their neighborhoods have not been assessed.
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