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We're hearing that there are many manhole fires in Tribeca - N. Moore, Hudson, Varick, etc. The rumor is that Con Ed lost a "feeder" - anyone who knows what a feeder is and how that might be causing this problem, please let us know. Also, there are reports of elevated carbon monoxide levels in a couple buildings, but it's unclear how dangerous they may be. WABC 7 did a story on the dangers of Con Ed - but only the getting shocked parts. For manholes, we're going to revist some links we liked from last year: How Stuff Works explains how manholes explode, Gothamist on exploding manholes and manhole tattoos; New York magazine on manholia (fear of manholes) and DC had a spate of manhole incidents - here's the Washington Post's manhole section.
There was also a first-floor fire at the Plaza earlier, which is a bad thing since it has an asbestos abatement.
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I don't know about others but I've had 2 glitches in power lately.
One a couple of Fridays ago when the power went out for a few seconds. All the commercial alarms in the area went off. There were no traffic or streetlights for those few seconds.
They've blocked traffic on Hudson from Canal south. But pedestrians are walking along these streets without anyone stopping them. I'm watching this from my office window, can't see any of the side streets west of Hudson, although there is eastbound traffic on Franklin coming from west of Hudson.
A manhole on fire in the Village? Do you know how many manholes are aflame each night throughout the city?
Well, multiple manholes at once, with Con Ed "losing a feeder" was interesting to me.
A feeder is basically the cable that feeds your building power. Most buildings have multiple feeders supplying them, so that if one fails, you don't lose power. The problem is that if one feeder fails, the others pick up the slack. Sometimes that overloads those other feeders/cables. They get hot, and then explode like the diagram shows.
'feeder' is another term for a c.h.u.d.
On a related note, those big tanks of liquid nitrogen on street corners are used to cool off the equipment in the manholes. After a manhole explosion on my street, I asked the ConEd guys for some information. Apparently, many of the electric lines in the city are old and in pretty bad shape, which means that the transformers run really hot. In critical areas, they cool them off with the nitrogen, but on side streets they just hope for the best (and so you get explosions).
I still have to know......why do they call it a manhole..?
hmm..womanhole? nah...
or those other holes...like the A's
this was mucho manhole info you have given us..
majorrr input..