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How many ways can we write that power has still not been restored in Queens? Cause it still hasn't. What else can we say? The papers are having a good time with this one, what journalist wouldn't love to write a story about a hair salon in Astoria that can't do a blowout? But good news stories doesn't bring the power back on, and neither, it seems, do all the mayor's horses and all the mayor's men.
At least we're getting closer to an actual explanation as to what happened. Closer, but not there yet. In his first public interview since the blackout started on Monday ConEd chief Kevin Burke offered up an explanation of sorts:
He said that 10 of the area’s 22 network feeder cables — each carrying 27,000 volts of electricity to neighborhood transformers, which step it down to 120 volts for household use and pass it along through secondary lines branching out to homes and businesses — went down in an unprecedented series of failures whose cause remains unknown.“It was really a very extraordinary event, something that I’ve never seen before,” Mr. Burke said of the failure.
Isn't that helpful of him? In the meantime there is still no timetable as to when the power will return and some people have reported getting their power back and going shopping for food only to wake up in the morning to have their power off again! Darn storms. We wonder though, can you make two sets of claims to ConEd for lost money if your power came back and then went off again? And how could they tell if you were telling the truth if they are literally driving down the street in order to figure out who doesn't and does have power? We'll keep you updated as more information slowly trickles out of this ridiculous situation.
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This will probably be of little consolation to the residents in Queens who are suffering, but there is a large swathe in west Philadelphia as well as areas in the midwest that have been without power for the same duration.
As much as I fucking hate ConEd, these blackouts are not limited to Queens. We have a nationwide grid problem.
The great surprise to me of this blackout is how long the Mayor and the major news outlets blacked it out. Does anyone recall how annoyed the Mayor was mid-week when asked about the lack of Queens electricity?
Still, long into this, it seems to me, no serious pressure has been applied by the Mayor to Con Ed to allocate resources to restore power.
I know it's hard not to have power for a few days when you're used to having it continuously and might take it for granted... but please remember that there are workers out there risking their lives to try to restore the conveniences of modern life (like blowdriers).
People in St. Louis are going through the same thing.
Anyone know if Silvercup Studios is affected (or is effected)?
We really, really need to be declared a federal disaster area so we can reimbursed for some of this nonsense. Apply pressure to your elected officials! Even AFTER the power goes on (if it ever does!)
BTW, does anyone have any idea how this has or is going to Affect real estate prices in the neighborhood?