Valley residents go without power for an estimated three hours amid freezing temperatures

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Over 1,000 people went without power, and more importantly, heat, in the Valley neighborhood of Syracuse for almost three hours Friday.

National Grid reported 1,371 households lost power at 1:36 p.m. Friday, with restoration rolling out at 4 p.m.

One concerned family member reached out to CNY Central saying her 80-year-old father who lives alone did not have power for over two hours.

This power outages comes as temperatures in CNY plummet— with wind chills of -7 degrees.

An equipment failure at a substation led to the outage, but crews responded quickly to restore power.

Affected households should have power restored within minutes National Grid said.