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Nearly 50,000 people on Long Island lost power during the storm, and some Long Islanders are still waiting for the power to come back on. Joining us now to talk about what's next is Katie Totsel from PSEG Long Island. Katie, thanks for joining us this morning. We know it's been a busy 24 hours plus. The good news is the numbers are coming down. The bad news is there are still people without power. What's the update? Good morning. So at this time we have a little bit of over 800 customers out of power, but we are 98% restored. Our crews, along with our mutual aid crews have been working day and overnight in some really challenging conditions, um, but we are working as quickly and as safely as possible to get those last 800 customers back on. You know, Katie, we haven't seen that outage map like that in a very long time. This was a historic blizzard. Can you tell how much is because of the heavy snow, the winds regarding these delays? A lot of it's downed trees, right? It's all different things. So right now we're seeing those 800 customers primarily on the east end where the winds were the highest. They hit over 80 miles an hour on the east end. And there was, it was the latest to leave, so the storm was finished earlier in the west and it, it remained out east later. So we're seeing those outages primarily on the east end where our crews were a little bit more delayed in getting started with the restoration. Katie, for people who are still without power, what advice do you have for them? What recourse do they have here at this point? Do you think, you know, by and large you'll get to 100% today? Yeah, we want you to stay patient. We understand that it is very hard to be without power, even for a small amount of time, and we are working as quickly and as safely as possible to get you restored. Um, we have, uh, anticipated that everyone will be restored by noon today. Oh wow, OK, that's good news for people who still don't have their power. Katie Tatzell from PSEG Long Island, thanks so much for the update this morning. Thank you.

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The blizzard caused power outages for nearly 50,000 people on Long Island. Some are still waiting for restorations on Tuesday morning. 

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