{"id":287396,"date":"2026-07-05T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287396\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:57:09","slug":"thunderstorm-leaves-thousands-without-power-in-dutchess-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287396\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm leaves thousands without power in Dutchess Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutchess County officials say thousands of residents are without power after a severe thunderstorm overnight on the Fourth of July caused \u201csignificant damage\u201d to powerlines and trees.<\/p>\n<p>The county says restoration of power and roadways is expected to take multiple days.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are warning residents and motorists that the most significant impacts were in city and Town of Poughkeepsie, East Fishkill, LaGrange, Beekman, Union Vale and village and town of Pawling.<\/p>\n<p>The county\u2019s Public Works and Emergency Response departments are working with teams from Central Hudson and New York State Electric &amp; Gas to clear roads and restore power.<\/p>\n<p>As of 11:45 a.m. Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.nyseg.com\/outages\/map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NYSEG<\/a> is reporting 7,454 outages in Dutchess County.<\/p>\n<p>Across the entire region, <a href=\"https:\/\/outagemap.cenhud.com\/?_gl=1*g94ab2*_gcl_au*MjAwNzYzMDgwOS4xNzgzMjY1NzE4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Central Hudson<\/a> is reporting 649 outages, with 46,225 total customers impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Dry ice and bottled water distribution events are being run by Central Hudson starting at 12 p.m. Sunday at the following locations:<\/p>\n<p>Home Depot at 3470 North Road, Poughkeepsie<br \/>\nHome Depot at 450 Route 9, Fishkill<br \/>\nLowe\u2019s at 650 Route 299, Highland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dutchess County officials say thousands of residents are without power after a severe thunderstorm overnight on the Fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10511,199,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,308],"class_list":["post-287396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adam-penale","tag-hudson-valley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}