Every Halloween night, for 20 years, I have spent time with the Police Chief patrolling the neighborhoods of Greenburgh. Early in my tenure as an elected official Halloween evening was difficult. Lots of vandalism. Property damage. Pranks. Families were scared. We tried to address this problem by assigning lots of police to different neighborhoods around the town. In recent years Halloween has been relatively quiet.
Tonight, when I went on my patrol with Chief of Police Joseph DeCarlo, it was very quiet. The police radio was silent while I was driving around town, very few complaints. There were some kids walking around their neighborhoods---but no major problems. A few reasons: 1) the police did a great job; 2)the October storm --families understood the dangerous post storm conditions of our streets. Wires are still down. So are some trees. And large tree branches continue to fall. The police chief showed me a very scary photo of a large pole that went right into a car. The car owner is probably one of the luckiest individuals around. Had he been in the car--he would not be alive.
MORE HOMES ARE GETTING POWER RESTORED--OLD FRANK'S NURSERY OFF OF DOBBS FERRY ROAD LOOKS LIKE A MILITARY BASE---WITH MANY CON ED REPAIR TRUCKS GETTING READY TO GET THE POWER BACK FOR THE POWERLESS
The Police Chief took me to the command center at police headquarters. Con Ed liaisons are working with the police and public works department trying to restore power. Con Ed is trying to restore power to large clusters of powerless homes first, If they can repair a transformer and restore power to a few hundred people --that takes priority over a neighborhood with one or two outages.
We then drove past Frank's nursery off of Dobbs Ferry Road. The nursery looked like a military camp---I estimate that sixty or more repair trucks were parked at the old nursery, ready to get to work restoring power. My guess is that many people without power will see their power restored sometime tomorrow. The trucks include repair teams from out of state.
PAUL FEINER
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