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Provided by the compucert Every year when the summer season starts up, Con Edison pleads with the residents of New York to conserve electricity. It seems to be an annual rite of passage of the season to have power failures, black-outs, brown-outs, etc.
This year it happened in Northwest Queens. Power started going out in Astoria and Long Island City on the night of July 16th. Most of the residents figured it was a temporary inconvenience and only grumbled about it slightly. But the next day ushered in high temperatures and a violent thunder storm. Mother Nature's one-two punch laid waste to the power grid supplying more than 200,000 Con Ed customers. Those affected were Astoria, LIC, Woodside and Sunnyside.
Con Edison went to work to correct the failures, but it would leave some NYC residents without power for more than a week. Some nine days. Some are still with only "partial power" meaning that they can't run refrigerators or air conditioners. Still very inconvenient.
They are about to launch a huge investigation to find out how this happened and how to avoid it in the future. But knowing Con Ed's policy of fixing things only when they are broken, I think we have an answer. When you're dealing with this many people, and an old grid, when things break, it's a big huge mess. They are probably going to need to do a lot of repairs and replacement to get things up to par, to prevent this in the future.
This year it happened in Northwest Queens. Power started going out in Astoria and Long Island City on the night of July 16th. Most of the residents figured it was a temporary inconvenience and only grumbled about it slightly. But the next day ushered in high temperatures and a violent thunder storm. Mother Nature's one-two punch laid waste to the power grid supplying more than 200,000 Con Ed customers. Those affected were Astoria, LIC, Woodside and Sunnyside.
Con Edison went to work to correct the failures, but it would leave some NYC residents without power for more than a week. Some nine days. Some are still with only "partial power" meaning that they can't run refrigerators or air conditioners. Still very inconvenient.
They are about to launch a huge investigation to find out how this happened and how to avoid it in the future. But knowing Con Ed's policy of fixing things only when they are broken, I think we have an answer. When you're dealing with this many people, and an old grid, when things break, it's a big huge mess. They are probably going to need to do a lot of repairs and replacement to get things up to par, to prevent this in the future.
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