Some roads remained closed and some homes were without power this morning after yesterday's heavy rains.
Update::
Syracuse, NY -- The power is back on for 357 National Grid customers in Syracuse's North Valley section, according to the company's Storm Center Web page.
As of 8:15 a.m., the utility was working on 11 other outages scattered across Onondaga, Oswego and Cayuga counties.
The largest, affecting 26 customers in Niles, Cayuga County, is expected to be fixed by 9:30 a.m., the site said.
Outages affecting 23 customers in Camillus and 20 in Salina both are expected to be resolved by 9:45 a.m. Nineteen North Syracuse customers can expect their lights back about 12:30 p.m., the utility said.
The biggest power failure in Oswego County, affecting nine customers in the town of Mexico, should be over by 9 a.m., the utility said.
Earlier:
Syracuse, NY – The Syracuse area survived its second-rainiest day ever, waking up Monday to a handful of closed roads, soggy basements and power outages but no major flooding.
The National Weather Service said 4.21 inches of rain fell at Syracuse Hancock International Airport on Sunday.
That smashed the old record for the date, 1.5 inches.
It also came within a few drops of tumbling the city’s all-time record for rainfall over 24 hours, 4.29 inches set on July 12, 2006, said Chris Gitro, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Binghamton office.
A southerly flow of moist air from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico caused the deluge. When the moist mass hit the elevated reaches of the Tug Hill Plateau it rose and condensed, drenching Central and Northern New York, Gitro said.
“The thing that saved you guys from significant flash flooding concerns is so much of the area has been so dry in recent weeks and months,” Gitro said. That left the soil with plenty of capacity to absorb the rain, and by and large it did, he said.
Authorities reported several flooded basements in Onondaga County and around the Madison County village of Canastota.
Motorists also will find a few roads and intersections closed because of flooding, including Manlius Center Road between Minoa and Clemons roads in Manlius, state Route 183 in the Oswego County town of Amboy, and the intersection of state Route 104 and county Route 22 in Albion, Oswego County.National Grid’s Web site also shows about 470 customers remaining without electricity across the five-county area. Of them, 357 customers were in Syracuse’s North Valley section. They should get their power back early this morning, utility officials said.
Nearly 5,500 Grid customers were without electricity at the height of Sunday’s storm.
