PEARL RIVER – Orange and Rockland Utilities has obtained additional overhead line crews as the company prepares to mobilize its emergency response workforce to repair potential damage and restore possible power outages that could result from a nor’easter, packing heavy, wet snow and gusty winds. That storm is expected to start roaring through the region just after midnight tonight and tapering off Tuesday afternoon.
Municipalities have already begun to declare snow emergencies.
The snow totals predicted for that storm have increased from earlier reports and are now expected to blanket the region with as much as four to 10 inches of heavy, wet snow. Wind gusts could be as high as 35 mph.
O&R company and contractor overhead line crews and tree removal teams, customer service operators and the other O&R emergency response personnel will be activated and deployed early Tuesday morning.
O&R has secured approximately 200 mutual aid workers, which will substantially increase the size of O&R’s overhead line field forces.
