{"id":75159,"date":"2026-07-02T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/75159\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:23:06","slug":"storm-knocks-out-power-to-thousands-of-national-grid-customers-in-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/75159\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm knocks out power to thousands of National Grid customers in North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A storm that rolled through the North Country overnight knocked out power to thousands of National Grid customers across three counties, with reports of downed trees throughout Jefferson County.<\/p>\n<p>Outages span three counties<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As of Thursday morning, National Grid was reporting more than 100 outages across Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties, affecting more than 4,000 customers. Customers can track restoration progress using the <a href=\"https:\/\/outagemap.ny.nationalgridus.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Grid outage map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Storm captured on video<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Video from Dexter showed the sky illuminated with lightning during the storm. Footage from Rutland captured a flagpole battered by wind gusts against a darkened sky. Additional video from the same area showed the storm moving overhead. Rooftop camera footage captured lightning bolts over downtown Watertown.<\/p>\n<p>Safety reminders from state officials<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The State Office of Emergency Management issued reminders for residents affected by outages:<\/p>\n<p>Do not use a gas stove or oven for heat.Keep generators outside and away from windows.Keep refrigerators and freezers closed.Disconnect appliances to prevent electrical surges.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; A storm that rolled through the North Country overnight knocked out power to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21249],"tags":[34072,28453,2580,32636,34073,24944,150,34071],"class_list":["post-75159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national-grid","tag-jefferson","tag-lewis","tag-national-grid","tag-power-outage","tag-st-lawrence","tag-storm","tag-weather","tag-wwny"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116851074820430317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}