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LIPA Continues Wind Storm Restorations

Hicksville – October 29, 2006 – The Long Island Power Authority continued to make wind storm-related service restorations throughout the day today as new outages occurred due to the high winds that have been battering the region.

Since mid-night, October 28th, about 62,240 LIPA customers have experienced a service disruption as a result of the sever winds impacting the Island. So far, 59,817 of customers have been returned to service, and 2,423 are being worked on. The peak number of customers out at any one time occurred at 11:00AM yesterday when some 26,714 customers were without service.

Over 1,218 repairs jobs have been completed by some 800 field and supervisory personnel working 16-hour shifts to replace poles, repair power lines, remove trees from downed power lines and poles, replace fuses and reset transformers.

“It’s been an ongoing effort all day long, but our repair personnel have been able to keep up with the restoration effort almost as they have been occurring,” said LIPA Chairman Richard M. Kessel. “Our goal is to get everyone back as quickly as possible, and so far we’ve been able to restore service to the majority of our customers in four hours or less.”

LIPA Customers should call 1-800-490-0075 to report an outage.

LIPA customers are also encouraged to visit LIPA’s Storm Center on LIPA’s Web site www.lipower.org for updated weather reports, electric outage information and tips to stay prepared for weather emergencies.