Patchogue escapes problems from nor’easter

The coastal storm that lashed much of the East Coast on Sunday and Monday spared Patchogue, mayor Paul Pontieri said.

Pontieri on Monday said there was some standing water on the south ends of South Ocean Avenue, Rider Avenue and Cedar Avenue near the Great South Bay during high tide on Monday afternoon, but those streets, as well as other roadways in the village, were open and passable, and Pontieri said he wasn’t aware of any power outages.

“We skipped a bullet,” he said.

The National Weather Service on Monday canceled a high wind warning for eastern Suffolk County, but a coastal flood warning for Long Island and New York remained in effect until 7 p.m. Monday.

Patchogue received 1.2 inches of rain in the 24 hours, ending at 1 p.m. Monday. The area was forecast to receive another quarter inch of rain in the next 24 hours. A wind advisory for eastern Suffolk remained in effect until 4 p.m. Monday, with gusts of up to 50 miles per hour observed along the coast.

But Patchogue made it through the storm unscathed.

As of late Monday afternoon, there were no reported power outages in the Patchogue area, a PSEG Long Island spokeswoman said.

Maria Giustizia, the Village of Patchogue’s Parks & Recreation director, said she received no reports of damage to any Parks & Recreation facilities.

The Patchogue-Medford Library’s downtown Patchogue and Medford branches were open regular hours on Sunday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m., director Danielle Paisley said.

Rev. Dwight Lee Wolter, of the Congregational Church of Patchogue, said in-person attendance for Sunday’s 10 a.m. service was down slightly while online attendance was larger than usual.

Wolter said that in anticipation of the storm, he stocked up on groceries and flashlight batteries and moved his car so it wasn’t underneath any trees in case of a falling tree limb. Those precautions turned out not to be necessary.

Sunday was to have been the final day of the Patchogue Farmers Market, but organizers postponed it to this coming Sunday, Oct. 19, because of the inclement weather, market manager Abby Gruppuso said. The final market of the season will include a miniature golf course and a performance by singer and guitarist Patrick McHale. Both are from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.