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Truck Pulls Down Icy Electrical Wire In Lyndhurst, N.J.; Residents Lose Power

LYNDHURST, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- Numerous residents of Lyndhurst, New Jersey were expected to be without power until Tuesday, after a truck accidentally pulled down an overhead wire and led four utility poles to snap.

As CBS2's Matt Kozar reported, the semi-trailer truck was making a food delivery to a Shop-Rite when it pulled down a wire that was hanging because of the snow and ice late Monday afternoon.

In the process, four utility poles snapped like matchsticks and came down, Kozar reported.

One pole was hanging precariously at a 45-degree angle over New York Avenue near Ridge Road. Power for residents of the block was not expected to be restored until Tuesday.

Public Service Electric & Gas crews and police were expected to be out all night long. Crews around 6 p.m. deenergized the wires to prevent any threat of electrocution.

Earlier in Lyndhurst, the icy rain on top of heavy wet snow moved up the demolition date for a vacant garage.

The accumulation caused the entire structure on Green Avenue to collapse, sending power lines down onto Sharon Williams' car.

"It just had huge wires in it," she said. "People were reversing down the block because they were scared to come down the block with the wires hanging down."

"It is scary, it happened right across the street from where I live," resident Christine Musso said. "Thank God nobody got hurt."

A winter storm warning was for most of the day for New York City as well as the lower Hudson Valley, parts of Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. Ice caused traffic accidents and numerous other problems across the area.

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