More Lose Power in Plainview

Hurricane Irene struck Long Island with a vengeance early Sunday morning, cutting power to thousands of Plainview residents.

Nearly 4,000 LIPA Plainview customers--almost 10,000 people-- were without power, acccording to the utility.

There was no word on when it would be restored but LIPA crews were seen out repairing lines.  LIPA said at 3 p.m., "Now that the worst of the storm has passed, the hundreds of workers we amassed before the storm are beginning damage assessments and will restore service as quickly and safely as possible. Currently we are unable to provide estimated restoration times. LIPA will be working around the clock until every customer's power is back on."

Trees were uprooted in several places around Plainview damaging lawns and in some cases, houses or cars.

Across Long Island, more than 460,000 customers had lost power as of  4 p.m. Vanessa Baird-Streeter, a spokeswoman for LIPA, said the overall number of outages reported is misleading as the utility company was authorized by Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to de-energize 4,615 customers on Fire Island, Gilgo Beach, Captree and Robert Moses areas.