GLEN, NY (AP) -- State police say they've recovered the body of an upstate New York man whose pickup was swept off a road by a fast-moving flood of water the morning after Tropical Storm Irene.
Investigator Karl Meybaum says 72-year-old Stephen Terleckey was apparently going to check on his flooded business and traveled several miles past warning barricades when he ran into the overflowing Schoharie Creek as a crew of bridge inspectors tried to wave him off.
The accident happened at about 9:30 a.m. Monday in the town of Glen, 30 miles west of Albany.
Meybaum says the truck disappeared into the creek and divers weren't able get into the dangerous water until about 7:30 p.m.
The town of Amsterdam man's death is the ninth confirmed in New York related to Irene.
In other Irene news, state officials say 528,000 New York utility customers are still without electricity two days after the tropical storm made landfall.
They say 270,000 of the outages are on Long Island, with 63,000 more in the rest of the New York City metro area.
Another 195,000 customers don't have power upstate as of Tuesday morning.
The outages peaked at about 945,000 Monday morning.
Con Edison expects most of its New York City customers to have service by Tuesday night and by Thursday in Westchester County. Long Island Power Authority and Orange and Rockland customers should have service restored by Friday night.
Other utilities expect to bring customers back on line over the next several days, but New York State Electric and Gas expects longer outages because of flooding in its territory.
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