Gothamist: 2,000 Without Power in Brooklyn Neighborhoods

jack9

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:51:55 -0500

"and is bounded by 3rd and 4th Streets on the north, the Gowanus Canal on the west, and south and Fort Hamilton Parkway on the east." On the west, comma, and south?

Steven

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:25:22 -0500

Hot day or not, you don't NEED AC. Go for a walk, go to the beach, go shopping (stores have AC), or just sit there and use a fan to reduce electrcity usage. The city's full of spoiled fuckin brats. With that saying how about in the winter close the heat and go to the stores for heat, but then people are afraid of their pipes bursting. On a day like today when it's very humid you need the AC. Fans don't do anything, but blow the hot air around. You need something to take the heat out of the air and most importantly all the moisture in the air.

babyhitler

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:25:57 -0500

Man, Why am I always in the vicinity of a Gothamist newsflash? this sucks balls!

handsomedevil

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:33:08 -0500

We got a robocall to conserve power this morning around 8:00 or 9:00 and they sent a loudspeaker truck around about 1:00. Guess they are still working on it. Hope this is not a repeat of Queens.

graybanks

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:07:09 -0500

"Also, if you have your account number, that'd handy for ConEd, too." Also, if can has cheezburger, that'd handy for nom nom nom.

Novanglus

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:06:04 -0500

sunset, why would ConEd bring up the manhole cover issue? In what forum would they be broadcasting this? It doesn't make sense, and is an unrelated incident.

Spiritof76

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:58:36 -0500

[4] Already addressed that. Read post [3]. You do know what a UPS is, don't you? It's an uninterruptible power supply. Even a small UPS would be able to run a cable modem for a couple of hours. You can get one at any decent computer store starting at about $40.

famdoc

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:17:37 -0500

novanglus makes a good point. how many blackouts and brownouts occur each year in Con Ed's service area? 1, 2, maybe 3. I am a PECO Energy customer in Eastern Pennsylvania and during every rainstorm, lightning storm or wind storm, we lose electricity for hours. Minimum of a dozen times a year.

sunsetparker

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:06:41 -0500

What's crazy is that last night around 11:50 pm, two manholes exploded in flames on 32nd St in Sunset Park and then burned for about 5 minutes. ConEd isn't bringing that up at all. It's not on NY1's website either. It could have been extremely dangerous if a car or pedestrian were nearby! Even nearby parked cars could have sustained damage, or, God forbid, caught fire! And it's not even mentioned in the news or by ConEd. I went back and asked ConEd what had happened at bout 1:30 am today, well after the flames and smoke had ceased, and they said that because it was so hot, electrical lines melted, wires crossed and electrical cables caught fire. They told me that the electricity should be back to normal. We're only experiencing brown-out type symptoms here.

Rfive

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:01:22 -0500

cuntry? losing it in the heat? turn on your AC!

Novanglus

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:54:56 -0500

People don't realize that Con Ed's performance record is way ABOVE that of most areas of the country. Drive 45 minutes beyond Con Ed's boundaries in any direction, and you'll find people losing power for reasons as petty as a rainstorm. We don't get that here. also keep in midnthat the old NYC infrastrucutre is the toughest in the US to maintain. There's so much, it's old and becuase of everything built on top of shit, they simply just can't get to the areas that need maintenence with ease. Hot day or not, you don't NEED AC. Go for a walk, go to the beach, go shopping (stores have AC), or just sit there and use a fan to reduce electrcity usage. The city's full of spoiled fuckin brats.

cuntry

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:40:22 -0500

maybe you fucks should stp using so much electricity and stop using the air conditioner every second

kidicarus

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:27:28 -0500

Maybe I read that wrong.

Jen Chung

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:26:44 -0500

Ah, gotcha, fixed and corrected--my mistake.

kidicarus

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:24:53 -0500

It COULD be 50 people, not IS 50 people. Thats not an average, thats an 'at most' number. So the actual number is somewhere between 2,000 and 100,000. The MyFoxNY number is referring to the total number of people who live in an area where there are electrical issues. It does not say that is THE EXACT NUMBER of people WITHOUT power. I think the number of buildings where only one person is a ConEd customer would be extraordinarily low. And MyFoxNY does NOT use the same reasoning as you- they report 2000 customers without pwer, which leads me to believe you're overstating the truth.

Jen Chung

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:13:44 -0500

I got the 89K number from MyFoxNY. But it's not totally unrealistic, because if a customer can equal an entire apartment building, that could be 50+ people.

kidicarus

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:08:20 -0500

I'm curious about how the number 89,000 was arrived at. I don't think 89000 people are without power. But thats the way the Gothamist version of it seems to read.

Steven

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:42:58 -0500

In one of the hottest plus extremely high humidity let's turn off the AC. Let the AC collect dust. The internet doesn't work when the power is out, since the modem and/or router need to be plug in. I suppose you can use your PDA phone to tell them about the outages.

Spiritof76

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:41:29 -0500

Oops. Forgot the modems also need power. Well, if they have a UPS, they're safe. What do you mean most people don't have UPS units?

Spiritof76

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:15:35 -0500

Somehow, Con Ed wants customers to tell them about power or service issues online Many if not most people have laptops nowadays, so they have a few hours of battery life and don't need AC power to go online. At least if they're jacked in to the cable or DSL modem directly rather than using a wireless router. Cable service probably runs on the company's own emergency generators and DSL should be unaffected if phone service isn't affected. Ditto for FiOS.

hoodlum

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:33:07 -0500

We pay the most for power and get crappy service like this. :-/