@volumecellular – Restoration of overhead power will take at least a week. Underground, up to 4 days. Lower Manhattan is underground.
— Con Edison (@ConEdison) October 30, 2012
@adamparker13 – please check the outage map for the most up-to-date information about restoration ow.ly/eTAYR
— Con Edison (@ConEdison) October 30, 2012
The in-tray has been eerily quiet since last night’s blackout. A reader writes:
This spring, a transformer blew in Boston and 20,000 customers lost power. It was in the heart of Back Bay, one of the few areas in the country that comes anywhere near Manhattan in population density. There was a fire, and it took three or four days to restore power to the area, during which time restaurants were closed and the streets were littered with tractor trailer-sized generators. The weather was fine, and there weren’t any other outages in the area, which had not just been inundated in a 100-year-plus storm.
Good luck.
Oy, thanks.
The Dish 