Power Outages

Old Man Winter just won't give it up. The late-season snowstorm is not only causing problems on the roads, it's knocking out power to thousands across Central New York.

As of this morning (Monday, December 13, 2021) more than 40,000 customers are still without power.

Hundreds are without power this morning following severe weather overnight. Oneida and Herkimer Counties are currently under a state of emergency and unnecessary travel is not recommended.

Some National Grid customers are without power as a blizzard sweeps across portions of New York.

More than 9,000 National Grid customers in Oneida and Herkimer Counties are without power this morning due to several outages across the Mohawk Valley.

The devastating wind storm that continues to ravage Central New York has left over 10,000 Mohawk Valley residents without power.

The wind storms that rocked Central New York caused tens of thousands of people to lose power early Thursday morning.

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.

Update (8:11 a.m.): The time that the problems will be resolved has been extended to Noon and more towns and villages have been added. However, some customers have had power restored. Update (10:48 a.m.) - Power is now expected to be restored in Herkimer County by 2:00 p.m. and in Oneida County by 3:00 p.m. Thousands are waking up without power this morning across Central New York. The areas most

We all complain about our utility bills, but when emergencies happen, we're glad to have those hard working people on the job. Case in point - this morning, when we lost power in New Hartford at about 6:45 a.m. in that terrible thunderstorm. I called National Grid to report the power outage, and they said it would be restored around 9:00 a.m.

Well, today started a bit out of the ordinary in the McShea household...no power. Our entire neighborhood was without power, so that means I saw a lot of people going to work in wet hair (no electric hairdryer), no commuter mug of coffee from home (no microwave or electric stove working), and disconnecting the electric garage door opener hinge to manually raise the garage door to get our cars out.