Gov. Andrew Cuomo is headed to western New York to discuss the recovery effort underway in the wake of violent weather that knocked out power to more than 200,000 utility customers.
The Democrat has scheduled a news conference for 1:30 p.m. Friday at the state Division of Military and Naval Affairs army at the Greater Rochester International Airport.Wednesday's windstorm brought gusts of 70 mph to 80 that mph knocked down trees and toppled utility poles across a 10-county area from the state's southwest corner to the Lake Erie shoreline.
As of noon Friday the number of outages has been reduced to around 122,000 by local crews being helped by utility workers from other states and Canada.Meanwhile, a storm hitting southern New York has dumped 4 to 7 inches of snow in the Hudson Valley and up to 3 inches in the Bronx.