Nearly 130,000 people in the tri-state area awoke Thursday without power after the remnants of Hurricane Ida tore through the region, causing flash flooding and killing at least 8 people in New York City.
More than 45,600 homes in New York were without power as of 6:20 a.m., according to data compiled by PowerOutage.us.
About half of those outages are in Dutchess and Westchester counties, according to the site, while the 5 boroughs saw only about 3,000 outages.
Most affected homes are serviced by Con Edison, the state’s biggest electricity provider, and Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp.
In New Jersey, where the storm sparked monster tornadoes in The Garden State, more than 63,000 homes had their power knocked out, mostly in the northern part of the state.
PSE&G, the state’s biggest electricity provider, said about 28,200 homes were without power Thursday morning.
First Energy said about 32,400 people were without power in New Jersey.
The New Jersey outages are concentrated in Essex, Sussex, Warren, Morris, Hunterdon and Somerset counties.
And Connecticut saw an additional 17,200 outages from the storm, mostly in Fairfield, New Haven and Middlesex counties.
An additional 76,000 homes across Pennsylvania had their power knocked out, with the Philadelphia area bearing the brunt of the outages.
The remnants of the hurricane, which had rocked Louisiana just days earlier, were so powerful that the National Weather Service issued its first ever flash flood warning for the city, and said 3.15 inches of rain fell on Central Park in an hour, from 8:51 to 9:51 pm — believed to be the most ever.
Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency before midnight on Wednesday, tweeting, “We’re enduring an historic weather event tonight with record breaking rain across the city, brutal flooding and dangerous conditions on our roads.”
