It stretched well beyond west Babylon. Surprised you do not recall this event
After dealing with the a day of stifling heat and humidity, severe thunderstorms plagued most of New York City and neighboring counties in New Jersey in the evening, but it appears Long Island may have gotten the worst of the storms. PSEG Long Island says lightning brought down trees and wires, causing outages mostly in the Towns of Islip and Babylon in Suffolk County.
As of 8:30 a.m., the company restored more than 67,000 customers impacted by the storm last night, howeber, PSEG Long Island is reporting that more than 24,000 of its approximately 1.1 million customers across Long Island and the Rockaways are still without service.