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Earlier this year, it was announced Con Ed would give refunds of $100 to residents and $350 to businesses who were struck by the 2006 blackout in Queens and now the state Public Service Commission has
Con Ed Increases 2006 Blackout Payments
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will they also pay for all the babies who were born 9 months later?
Anyone who bitches about that power outage should really read the PDF report on the play by play of what happened and what they had to do to get it working.
They're required by company policy (and I think by law) to literally time stamp and show everything they did during the whole incident.
Getting a main of that magnitude to come back up while every dickhead in the area still has every piece of electrical equipment in their living space running is a task to say the least... Oh yeah, and all the cable for it is buried under miles of NYC infrastructure that cannot be taken off line in the process to troubleshoot it.
I think ConEd does a respectable job, all things considered.
By the way, here's the mayors report:
http://www.coned.com/messages/Mayors%20Report.pdf
when do we get paid? do we need to apply for it or is it automatic?
shouldn't happen again since the entire system was basically rebuilt in Astoria...who's next???