UPDATE: Almost 6,000 Without Power Sunday Morning; Ocean Penetrates Dunes

Over 6,000 customers are without power on Sunday at noon as Hurricane Irene moves over the South Fork.

The majority of those affected are still in Amagansett, on the north-west side of Napeague State Park, according to the Long Island Power Authority website. Those customers lost power earlier Sunday morning.

LIPA is still assessing the condition. According to the town's emergency management coordinator, LIPA won't come out to work on downed wires until the winds die down.

Wind and falling trees are bring wires down all over the South Fork. One wire arcing closed Toilsome Lane in East Hampton Village. 

Large trees have closed down major roadways and are posing a problem for ambulances that require use of the main road.

Large trees across Woods Lane between Toilsome Lane and Ocean Avenue in East Hampton Village and Montauk Highway between the Milk Pail and the Hess Station on the Bridgehampton-Water Mill border are causing ambulances headed to Southampton Hospital to re-route down Route 114  and up Scuttlehole Road in Bridgehampton.

Accabonac Road was also closed just east of Collins Avenue in East Hampton.

Leaves and smaller branches and tree limbs have littered roadways everywhere.

Lights out for many customers

LIPA also reports that over 1,800 are without power in Springs. The biggest blocks are those in Clearwater and along Old Stone Highway. Maidstone Park residents are also impacted, as well as a number of residences between Three Mile Harbor and Springs-Fireplace Road.

In Montauk, about 1,230 customers are without power. Some are located along Montauk and Old Montauk highways and residents north of the .

It's also lights out for 335 customers in East Hampton, just outside the village.

Even the town's Emergency Operations Center lost power, though it had a generators.

Almost 90 are without power in Wainscott; 43 are located in Northwest Woods.

Some Spending Sunday at Shelters

Around 220 people spent Saturday night and Sunday morning in a shelter in town. About 160 slept on Red Cross cots at the gym, while 60 more and a handful of pets spent Saturday night at the , according to Supervisor Bill Wilkinson.

As of about 5:30 a.m., the supervisor was driving around surveying the conditions in Montauk.

Flooding Problems Abound

East Hampton Village Police Department requested the highway department to barricade off because the water was coming down the hill around 6 a.m.

The ocean came up over the dunes at in East Hampton. 

On the bay side, the Head of the Harbor at the foot of Springs was almost completely flooded at 11 a.m. Another six inches and the water will come over the docks. As it was, the water was overflowing from the launching ramp and getting to some boats was nearly impossible.

In Montauk, parking lot was completely flood from the ocean.