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LIPA: 99 percent to be restored by Tuesday

Originally published: November 10, 2012 11:45 AM
Updated: November 10, 2012 6:05 PM
By SCOTT EIDLER, AISHA AL-MUSLIM AND WILL VAN SANT scott.eidler@newsday.com,aisha.al-muslim@newsday.com,will.vansant@newsday.com

Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | LIPA has started work on a $6.5-million transmission-line upgrade to deal with growing power demands on the East End. (Aug. 29, 2011)

Videos

After the devastation of superstorm Sandy, we look

Surviving Sandy Hundreds of outraged LIPA customers rallied outside National

LIPA protest Tom King, president of National Grid, and John

National Grid news conference on LI outages

Galleries

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Web links

LIPA outages by community, using official data from

Map: LIPA outages

Ninety-nine percent of LIPA customers who are able receive power will have their electricity restored by the end of the day Tuesday, the president of National Grid's Long Island electric group said at a Saturday afternoon news conference.

In addition, John Bruckner said, all Suffolk County residents who live within a flood zone, but who did not sustain water damage, will have their power restored...

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