Power outages dwindling after Sunday's stormy weather

The number of power outages dwindled Monday morning after thousands of Long Islanders were out of power amid blustery weather Sunday evening.

PSEG at 6:15 a.m. on Monday morning reported just 43 outages affecting about 124 customers. But that number went up to more than 600 customers in the afternoon.

Elizabeth Flagler, a PSEG Long Island spokeswoman, said Sunday’s outages, which at one point was more than 6,700, were due to the unsettled weather.

“We had quite a bit of lightning and heavy rain come through the middle of the Island,” she said, explaining lightning struck a power pole in Holbrook, where a majority of the outages — 2,200 customers — were as of just before 7:30 p.m.

The new power outages Sunday came after PSEG Long Island's restoration of the original 420,000 customers whose power was knocked out from the high winds of Tropical Storm Isaias, as well as thousands afterward that were storm-related.

The number of outages for customers of Altice, the company that operates Optimum, and Verizon, was not disclosed by company representatives. Early Monday those providers were reporting no significant impacts or outages online.

With John Valenti