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Beach clubs in Atlantic Beach got hit hard in last night's water spout and now confirmed tornado, and now we know neighboring businesses in the community are stepping up their support. Newstar, Long Island's Jen Selli is outside of the New York Beach Club with more. Jen. Yes, Rich, we're not too far away from where Cecilia is at Sun and Surf Beach Club. We are at this beach club where it doesn't look like a lot of damage has been done, at least to the pool area, but we're on the boardwalk, and if you look to the beach area, you can see all the tables and chairs, some palm trees are just scattered all over the place. Speaking with the owner at this beach club, the New York Beach Club, this morning, he tells me. What you're looking at right now usually can sit about 300 people on the beach. So still, it's a messy situation over here too. The club though here is stepping up to help its neighbors though at Sun and Surf. That's why we came over here. The New York Beach Club says that once they finish their own cleanup, they will welcome Sun and Surf members to use their amenities all for free, including the pool, the chairs, everything that you see over here. So if you have a beach club, Dealing with significant damage this morning just down the road, another beach club is helping out here, so you just got to show your information. And again, everyone's waking up this morning to see all the damage. They're surveying the damage and just a mess here. So of course we're working to learn more, but it's nice to see at least some beach clubs here in Atlantic Beach are helping out each other as popular summer season, popular summer spot. A lot of Long Islanders are here, so of course we're going to stick around here and uh send it back to you now in the studio.

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Now from the damage to flooding and this morning we're hearing from local officials who were out monitoring those conditions during the storm. There were impacts all across the island and joining us now, Huntington Highway Superintendent Andre Sorrentino. Andre, thanks for joining us this morning. Your crews have been out there. You've seen some flooding in the town. Where were some of the hardest hit areas? Well, we got hit hard, probably, I would say on the east side, uh, by, uh, Comac area was pretty bad. The north side of Huntington, uh, same thing, uh, the usual low spots. Uh, we got some trees down. We got about 20 different locations with trees down. We have about 20 different locations of flooding. Uh, good news is we were, we got here early and the crews, the, uh, men and women got here early, uh, and we started pumping as soon as it started and, uh, those low-lying areas, we were able to, you know, help people not get flooded out. And that's great to get quick work on the flooding, but when people started seeing that water spout video, it kind of went viral during the storm. I mean, obviously officials across the island were like, is this one coming to us? What were you thinking at that time? Uh, I was thinking the worst, very worried, you know, you, you, uh, started bringing crews in as soon as I saw that, obviously, um, I, uh, I didn't, uh, I didn't hesitate, got people in, we got ready, uh, the crews were ready to go and luckily, it didn't hit us, but now, like you had mentioned earlier, what we have to worry about is now all these roots are saturated and now the trees are starting to come down, um, you know. Like I said, we had about 20 different locations that had trees down and we're, uh, we're trying to catch up because it was dark when everything happened and, you know, we're just trying to be safe and, you know, we still have some flooding going around. The pump crews are out and they're doing their best to stay on top of it. A lot of work still to be done for sure and then preparing for the next one with clearing storm drains and things like that. Andre, thanks for the time as always. Thanks, Andre. Thank you very much. Thank you guys. Be safe. Thank you very much.

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There now many Long Islanders felt the impacts of last night's storm, whether it was flooding and also thousands were without power. Yeah, joining us now to talk about that and the impact there, Larry Torres from PSEG Long Island and Larry, you're looking at the images you're seeing some of the damage. You're thinking the worst when it comes to the power grid too. What was it like last night and where do we stand this morning? Yeah, yeah, regarding that specific location, we were lucky, you know, tornadoes are very finicky, and we did get affected with one location. We had about 13 customers out at Atlantic Beach, but that has been restored last night. That's the good news regarding everything else. PSEG Long Island has restored approximately 85% of our customers that were affected by last night's storms. As of 7 o'clock this morning. We have restored power to more than 5200 customers affected by the dun storm since 3 o'clock yesterday. There are just under 900 customers still out. All right, now obviously you're going to work throughout the day to get those customers back, but if you look at the damage, especially the new video we just got from our News 12 drone over that beach club, if that was a neighborhood, you got to think about how hard you guys would be hit with that. Absolutely, yeah, as I mentioned, we got lucky. It's not often we come across tornadoes, but we were prepared, you know, we, we watched the weather. We had additional resources last night. We do understand how difficult and disruptive it is to be without power, especially when waking up this morning, but PSG. Island is committed to restore power as quickly and safely as possible, and if we had additional tornadoes, we would bring in additional resources to get the lights on. More rain expected for this weekend, Larry, soft ground out there. Are you concerned there could be some residual impacts? Yeah, we, we, we watch that and we will make sure we have enough staffing on hand throughout the weekend to restore power if needed for our customers. So we're we're ready for this weather this weekend. Larry Torres from PSEG Long Island, thank you so much for giving us an update and obviously let us know how it goes throughout the weekend.

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The tornado tore through Sun and Surf Club in Atlantic Beach.


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