Around 7 p.m. Thursday evening, the power went out for many Collegetown businesses on the 400 block of College Avenue — plunging student hangouts like Collegetown Bagels, Ruloffs, Apollo’s and 7/11 into near-darkness. Since most students use card payments, Edwin Carrero, a 7/11 employee, worried about the impact of the outage on sales, but admitted that there was not much that they could do about it. Reagan T., a CTB employee, told The Sun that NYSEG had reached out to the businesses on Wednesday, warning them that the inclement weather and strong winds could cause an outage. Wind speeds ranged from 14 miles per hour this morning, to a high of 38 mph this afternoon. The rain is expected to continue through the night with a northeast wind of approximately 15-20 mph.

Source: Daily Sun October 18, 2019 01:07 UTC