Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) emergency response teams have been working throughout the night to restore power to customers impacted by this weekend’s thunderstorms and soaring temperatures.

O&R's emergency response crews, which include overhead line technicians, vegetation removal experts, and nearly 160 mutual aid crew members, have restored power to more than 40,000 of the 42,161 customers impacted by the thunderstorms and extreme heat that preceded them. Our dedicated teams remain focused on completing current restorations and safely returning power to all our communities. As of 6:00 a.m., approximately 1,810 O&R customers remain without power in the following areas:

Current Outages in Rockland County: 475

• Pomona: 113
• Clarkstown: 109
• Ramapo: 67
• Orangetown: 53

O&R Warns

For safety’s sake, O&R warns the public not to touch or approach any downed wire. Assume the wire is energized and dangerous. Call O&R immediately toll-free 1-877-434-4100. Depending on the situation, you may also consider calling your local police to divert traffic from the downed wire’s location until an O&R crew arrives.

How to Report an Outage

If you experience a power outage, don’t assume that O&R automatically knows about it. You can report it and check to see when your lights will be back on through:

• Report an Electric Service Problem | Orange & Rockland (oru.com) from any computer or web-based mobile device.         

• O&R mobile app from your iPhone, iPad or Android device --- download via Apple Store or Google Play.

• Text messaging by texting “OUT” to 678797 (ORUPWR) or

• Call 1-877-434-4100.

Restoring Service 

Once the weather clears enough to safely assess damage and begin electric service restoration, O&R crews will give priority to clearing downed wires blocking roads and making repairs to critical and emergency facilities (police and fire stations, and hospitals, for example) and to those locations where the repair will provide power to the largest number of customers as quickly as possible. Then, crews will restore smaller outages and individual customers’ outages.