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20.2% of Riverhead area still without power Wednesday

By Vera Chinese

VERA CHINESE PHOTO | LIPA workers repair a wire on Main Road in Jamesport Tuesday afternoon. Many residents complained that sightings of LIPA vehicles were few and far between on the North Fork after Tropical Storm Irene left more than half the population without power.

About 20 percent of households and businesses in the Riverhead area, including parts of Southampton, were still without power Wednesday morning, down from 26 percent at noon Tuesday, according to Long Island Power Authority figures.

This comes three days after the worst of Tropical Storm Irene swept across Long Island Sunday morning.

Calverton still leads the way for power outages in Riverhead Town, with 44 percent of households and businesses having no power, and in Wading River, 40 percent of people were powerless as of 10:30 a.m., according to LIPA’s power outage map, which is continually updated.

The hamlets of Riverhead, Northville, Aquebogue, Jamesport and Riverside in Riverhead Town, and Flanders, Riverside and Northampton in neighboring Southampton were faring much better, according to the LIPA figures, though some residences have reported much of Jamesport is still disconnected from the power grid. LIPA figures for Jamesport as of noon reported 64 power outages out of 1,350 customers.

LIPA will host a press conference today at 11:30 a.m.

Check back here for updates.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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