Business as Usual But Power Out Until Wednesday

Monday morning is back to business after a weekend full of October surprises. School is open and the New Haven Metro-North line is expected to run on-schedule.

The remarkable weekend started with Friday night's seventh game World Series victory by the St. Louis Cardinals over the Texas Rangers. While the rest of the country watched the game, Westchester and the rest of the East Coast hunkered down for an October Nor'easter– a rare, early season snow storm.

According to the National Weather Service, there have been only four October dates with measurable snowfall at Central Park since it began keeping track 135 years ago. That record October snowfall ranged from 1.3 inches in Central Park to as much as 21.6 inches in Millbrook, NY.

In the area of Rye and Rye Brook, snow fall was about three inches deep, but the timing yielded much more damage than it might have during the winter season. Trees, still clad in their fall foliage, bent and broke under the weight of the heavy, wet precipitate taking power lines down and blocking roads.

Public work trucks switched gears from leaf collecting to road-salting and snow-plowing.

By midnight Sunday, Con Ed reported 501 households in Rye Brook and 457 in Rye still without power and currently estimates restoration by midnight on Wednesday, November 2.