Gothamist: Con Ed Increases 2006 Blackout Payments

pkreder

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:17:10 -0500

shouldn't happen again since the entire system was basically rebuilt in Astoria...who's next???

csk

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:09:58 -0500

when do we get paid? do we need to apply for it or is it automatic?

Ph

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:44:49 -0500

By the way, here's the mayors report: http://www.coned.com/messages/Mayors%20Report.pdf

Ph

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:39:17 -0500

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.

dimshine

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:37:27 -0500

will they also pay for all the babies who were born 9 months later?