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July 22, 2006
Blackout in Queens
[ UPDATE: Now they say the problem won't be fixed till early next week. That means 70,000 people without light or air-conditioning or refrigeration, in 90 degree humid weather, for over a week. ]
[ UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a national security angle. ]
Earlier this week Van was speculating what he would do if we had another blackout in NYC.
Well, we have. A partial blackout started in Queens on Monday, and still hasn't been fixed:
The blackouts started Monday in a handful of neighborhoods in Queens. Two LaGuardia Airport terminals lost power Monday night and again on Tuesday. Since then, hundreds of businesses have been idle, and the city's jail complex on Rikers Island has had to operate on backup generators. Some building's elevators were not running, and traffic lights at some intersections were not working.Meanwhile Con Ed is running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Jeez.. . . . A series of heavy-duty circuits that supply the area began to fail Monday evening, just hours after the sweltering state set a record for electricity use. More circuits failed Tuesday and more again Wednesday, even after the city's heat wave ended and demand for power plummeted. The blackouts were at their worst on Wednesday, when 10 of the 22 feeder cables that supply the area with power were down simultaneously. The temperature had hit 100 degrees in the neighborhood the day before.
Just why heat would have triggered a problem in Queens, but not elsewhere, was unclear.
Judith | 07/22/06 at 03:13 PM | Categories: NYC
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