WAWARSING – The severe winter storm which slammed the Northeast late last week left over 75,000 households without power — about a quarter of Central Hudson's service area — while simultaneously creating a beautiful, yet dangerous, vista of ice-encased trees and mountains throughout the Hudson Valley.

According to John Maserjian, a Central Hudson spokesperson, the Town of Wawarsing alone suffered 2,500 outages when the storm hit on Thursday night and into Friday morning. As of Monday, 60 homes were still without power in Wawarsing, he said.  >  MORE...

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