MORIAH -- Electricity was slowly coming back on in remote sections of Moriah, Ticonderoga, Crown Point and Westport Monday following an ice storm over the weekend.

Those four towns each still had 100 to 400 National Grid customers with no electricity.

Westport Supervisor Daniel Connell said he had five or six roads in his town that weren't expected to have power restored until today.

Power to most of Westport came back on at about 8 p.m. Sunday, he said.

"Westport is at the end of the National Grid line, so they work their way north to us. Some of our roads got hit hard. There were places in Westport you couldn't stand up because of the ice."

MEALS AT SHELTERS

A shelter was set up at the Westport Town Hall on Route 22 over the weekend.

A mass shelter was opened at noon Monday for the residents of Ticonderoga and surrounding communities still without power.

The shelter, located at the Ticonderoga Armory Community Center, will remain open until the need for sheltering decreases, officials from the American Red Cross Adirondack-Saratoga Chapter said.

Red Cross Executive Director Eileen Reardon said continued cold temperatures and loss of power warranted the opening of the shelter.

"Now that the power has remained out, residents are in need of additional shelter."

She said warming and feeding centers in Schroon Lake and Ticonderoga served more 70 individuals over the weekend. The warming shelter in Schroon Lake was officially closed Monday.

Most of the people wanted a hot meal or to get warm, Ticonderoga Supervisor Robert C. Dedrick said. He said only a few people came to the shelter in his town who needed a place to stay.

"They were given rooms at the Super 8 Motel. The Red Cross told us if you have less than maybe 20 people, it's better to put them up somewhere than to operate a shelter."

CREWS WORKING HARD