About 6,000 people were without power in the area Thursday as a storm brought strong winds and rain.
Power was restored to fewer than 300 that night and was expected in most areas before today, officials said. Emergency dispatchers reported downed wires and branches but no weather-related accidents.
Most of those without power lived in a section of Otsego and Schoharie counties served by National Grid. Spokesman Patrick Stella said the outages all appeared weather-related.
Those affected included about 5,700 served by a transmission line near Cobleskill, he said. The company is investigating what appears to be a problem with an insulator on the line that serves Worcester, East Worcester, Schenevus and Summit, he said.
Service was expected to be restored to those customers late Thursday night or early today, according to the company's website.
There were about 360 people affected in the Oneonta area served by New York State Electric & Gas, said spokeswoman Ann Carnrike, and the largest affected area was Andes, where 56 people lost power.
There were 43 in Milford, 35 in Otego and 14 in Oneonta without power at one point Thursday, she said, but if the weather cooperated, she expected power restored by 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
The winds and rain came from the edges of a low-pressure system that was moving through Canada on Thursday, said meteorologist Mike Evans, of the National Weather Service in Binghamton.
The winds started before daybreak and were at their strongest from midmorning through midafternoon, he said. The gusts were about 30 to 40 miles per hour, he said. Stronger gusts passed north of this area, going from Syracuse through Herkimer County, he said, and most areas got between one-quarter to one-half inch of rain.
Today should be sunny with temperatures in the low 70s.
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