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CHENANGO COUNTY – Nearly a thousand households are without power after a severe thunderstorm hit Chenango County, leading to outages starting Wednesday afternoon and continuing into Thursday morning.

According to the Chenango County Emergency Operations Center Director A. Wesley Jones, as of Thursday morning, 974 customers were without power in Chenango County due to a storm that hit the area Wednesday afternoon.

“NYSEG is reporting that there are still 974 customers without power, a third of those are in the Plymouth area,” said Jones. “The Northern part of the county got hit the hardest, with the most trees and wires down.”

A report available through NYSEG shows that as of 8 a.m. Thursday morning hundreds will remain without power as NYSEG assesses damage created by the prior day’s storm. It shows that the top three municipalities still affected by the power outage are the Town of Plymouth with 278 outages, the Town of Oxford with 97 outages, and the Town of Pharsalia with 95 outages.

NYSEG reported that Chenango County was one of several counties to reach close to 1,000 outages due to the storm, with areas like Columbia and Otsego counties reaching 4,182 and 2,682 without electricity.