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UPDATE: LIPA Reports 173 Customers Without Power in Commack
Power should be restored by 7:30 p.m., power authority estimates.
UPDATE: Power has been restored to all customers.
Approximately 173 customers in Commack are without power Wednesday evening, according to the Long Island Power Authority Storm Center.
As of 5:50 p.m. the outage is located in the vicinity of Hedgrow Lane, just north of Jericho Turnpike and east of Larkfield Road.
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Power was temporarily cut in order to allow workers to safely remove a tree branch that was interfering with power lines, according to Mark Gross, director of Communications for LIPA.
"There was a tree branch making contact on primary wires on Hedgerow Lane," he said. "In order for the servicemen to fix the problem before a larger outage occurred, we had to take an intentional outage of those customers to de-energize the lines and make sure the area was safe to work."
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Most should expect to have power back by 7:30 p.m., according to estimates from LIPA.
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