He was also anticipating most repairs to be completed by Tuesday, but said wind has been hampering the efforts.

In Moriah, Dalton Hill Road, Silver Lake Road and Fairy Lake Road were all closed today because of branches and lines falling.

It may be days before some back roads are cleared, County Emergency Services Deputy Director Donald Jaquish said.

“There was a lot of devastation. This is like the Ice Storm (of 1998) all over again.”

The Ice Storm 10 years ago affected a much larger area, Thatcher said, but the damage he’s seen in Moriah’s Mineville and Witherbee hamlets and some remote sections of Crown Point and south Ticonderoga resembles what he saw then.

Shelters were set up today at the Moriah and Mineville-Witherbee fire stations, along with the Ticonderoga Community Armory and Westport Town Hall, and Thatcher said they would be staffed by American Red Cross personnel.

“Our shelter here is open,” said Moriah Fire Chief Ralph Jaquish. “We have food; we’re ready.”

Most gas stations in the affected area couldn’t sell gas without power, but long lines formed at Mineville Oil and Port Henry Service Center, both of which had generators to keep pumping.

Thatcher said he didn’t know if schools would be able to open Monday because even with power restored buses might not be able to navigate some secondary roads.

“Some places had one inch of ice. Some trees are totally flat. There is a lot of infrastructure damage.”

He said 20 residents of a Witherbee apartment building were taken to Elizabethtown Community Hospital and Moses-Ludington Hospital for treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning. Thatcher said he didn’t have details on what happened to expose them to the fumes.

National Grid used its helicopter to check power lines for damage.

“They had to survey each circuit before the main transmission lines could be energized,” said Thatcher.

There were also some issues in Franklin County, where there were some power outages on the outskirts of Tupper Lake. But most parts of the county still had power today.

Clinton County also came out of the storm relatively unscathed, said Emergency Services Director Eric Day.