Tree on electric wires following storm (photo by Jamestown BPU – April 16, 2023)
Gusty winds and hard rain caused trees and branches to bring down some power lines around the area Sunday night.
The City of Jamestown put out a notice that there were some power outages in the Board of Public Utilities’ area. They cautioned that some discolored water was reported, but that is expected to clear by today.
National Grid had only a couple dozen residences in their area without power in Chautauqua County this morning after news reports said around 1500 lost power last night.
All of Sinclairville, part of Town of Charlotte and Town of Gerry were all without power. We did not have wind gusts. Wind gusts are sporadic. We had wind shear, steady, constant wind.One moment nothing and calm, the next every tree nearly bent in half with hurricanel ike wind. With the rain in the wind, it was horizontal.