March 16, 2026
Trees were down in Steuben County on Saturday morning. On Haverling Street in Bath there was a tree blocking the street and causing downed wires. At about 8am Saturday, Bath Electric Gas and Water shut the power down so they could do repairs. In the 9am Saturday morning, Steuben Rural Electric had 32 outages in Bath and 127 outages in Thurston. There were also scattered outages in Hartsville and Howard. Also in the 9am hour Saturday, NYSEG reported that Wheeler had 535 outages, Erwin had 445 and Lindley had 415 NYSEG outages. There were 43 outages in Avoca and other scattered power outages in Caton and Cohocton.
Unfortunately, it did not end there. The same places were hit with outages on Sunday afternoon.
