Power Outages, Floods Set In

Wind gusts have knocked out power for over 1,000 residents of Northeast Queens. 

The area around 40th Ave. and 220th St. has a clustered power outage leaving what Con Ed estimates could be 710 residents in the dark.

Other outages are indicated on Con Ed's Web site.

Councilman Dan Halloran, R-Whitestone, Halloran who on Sunday morning was driving around his Northeast Queens District, has reported that many streets have swelled with water.

"Francis Lewis is seriously ponding and branches are already down in the Auburndale area—Utopia Parkway is getting bad quickly—stay off roads if possible," said Halloran.

"Streets look like brooks from northern and bell to the Cross Island, which is—of course—ponding," he added.