power outages

A major nor'easter packing wet, heavy snow has sent tree limbs crashing down, closed schools and left more than 100,000 customers without power across upstate New York.

Two days after a power loss grounded flights at Atlanta's airport over the weekend, passengers are still sleeping in the atrium area at the world's busiest airport.

Hundreds of out-of-state utility crews are in Maine to help the state recover from a strong storm that pounded the Northeast and left about 1.5 million homes and businesses without power.

Powerful thunderstorms triggered flash flooding and knocked out electric service to thousands of people in the Binghamton area.

Thousands of NYSEG customers lost electric service after a series of strong thunderstorms raced through the Southern Tier and upstate New York.

Among them are about 2,500 customers in the Clinton and Clark Mills area, including those living near Route 233, Route 5 and Route 12B.

More than 30,000 utility customers in eastern New York are without electricity after severe thunderstorms packing high winds knocked down trees and power lines across the region.

New York State Electric and Gas is estimating power will be restored to remaining areas that had power off following the May 1 storm at around 10 p.m. May 3.

More than 40,000 utility customers are without power after powerful thunderstorms packing high winds rolled across upstate New York.

The National Grid website reports wide-spread power outages in both the City of Utica, New Hartford and New York Mills. The total number is somewhere above 5,000 and crews are working to correct the problem.