WPCNR MOBILE UNIT. By John F. Bailey. January 19, 2006 UPDATED 11:A.M. E.S.T.: The City of White Plains has opened up major thru streets in the city as of midnight.

Mamaroneck Avenue closed about 12 hours, is now been opened its entire length within the city of White Plains as of midnight. A tree blocking the northbound lanes at Burke Hospital had caused the closing.

 Central Avenue opened as of 11:30 P.M. Wednesday evening. Bryant Avenue is now open the width of the city, East to West. Old Mamaroneck Road is still closed Southbound at Stratford Avenue, and is open Northbound from the Scarsdale line to Gedney Way. There is no access to Soundview Avenue from Old Mamaroneck Road.

Battle at Midnight. Battle Avenue had no access from the Harmon Ave Intersection at midnight. Area remained one of hardest hit in city, appears to be the last getting back to recovery. Photo, WPCNR News.

Battle Hill Avenue remains closed west bound to Central Avenue at Harmon Avenue at midnight. A vast section of Battle Hill of about 100 homes  remained dark along Chatterton and Robertson Avenues. Crews were working in that area when WPCNR cruised by.  Chatterton and Robertson are open to traffic for a portion of their length.

JUICE TO HEATLESS, LIGHTLESS SENIORS. The Battle Hill Housing building according to sources did not have a working backup generator to power oxygen units. The WPFD supplied power to individual apartments for oxygen units.  Photo by WPCNR News.

The senior housing complex, Battle Hill Housing on Harmon had been without power since 8 A.M. Wednesday morning as of midnite last night. A White Plains Fire Department truck is supplying some power to senior citizen oxygen units within the complex, on an individual apartment basis.The city only became aware of the power problem when notified by a resident at 3 P.M, Wednesday after the White Plains Housing Authority-run complex had been without heat and lights for seven hours.

Pockets of roads within Gedney Farms are still closed as of 12:30 A.M. E.S.T. Thursday. Heatherbloom is closed at the golf course and at Heatherbloom and Macy.

Greenridge Avenue in the Highlands still appears afflicted with outages

 Power is out on a "shotgun" pattern to homes in the southern portion of the city. Crews continue to work around the city at this hour.  One resident without power on Greenridge told WPCNR there were a great number of large trees downed throughout the southend and power had to be restored on an individual house by house basis, compounding the recovery effort.

No one sleeps with the County.

The County Center Disaster Relief Shelter, set up by Westchester County to house persons who were without electricity,  according to the American Red Cross officer in charge, Robert Reggio, had no residents staying over night. He said three persons came in to pick up food, but no one elected to stay. Reggio added that officials had told him that many persons were staying in their homes, even though advised of the shelter availability.

Red Cross workers on the scene at the County Center asked WPCNR to remind persons that in disaster situations, persons should call the police to find out about temporary shelter availability. They felt persons did not know about the shelter being open.