Over 100,000 New Yorkers suffer from power loss on Christmas


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Saturday, 26 Dec 2020

NEW YORK, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- More than 100,000 New Yorkers woke up Christmas morning on Friday without electricity after a powerful storm lashed the northeast of the United States overnight.

Westchester, Rockland, Ulster, Orange and Dutchess counties were particularly hard hit, with 73,926 outages reported between the five of them as of 10 a.m. on Friday, according to PowerOutage.US, a service that tracks electricity disruptions nationwide.

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