Power Outage in Queens NY

[YoungRemy]

Its going on day 8 and no word when Astoria, Long island City, and surrounding neighborhoods will get power back... Congressmen are requesting a state of emergency and Con Ed has no answers...

is anyone affected (I guess you wouldnt be posting if you were)

Bionic?

[ggirlballa]

if feel bad for u Queens folks

its hot as fuck everywhere else too tho

[Planetary]

a relative of mine over there is affected :( complaining about no aircon

[TurdBerglar]

wait

what?


no power in queens for 8 days?

[ggirlballa]

wait

what?


no power in queens for 8 days?

r u joking?

[Chicka B]

Why'd it go out? That's so weird, I went without power for 2 days but got it back but there's still areas with no power. Probably not for the same reason though (tornados). And 8 days, that's some crazy shit.

[ggirlballa]

i think its unknown why it went out well thats wut it said the last time i heard abooooout it on the news

[YoungRemy]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-pow0725,0,2409844.story?coll=ny-top-headlines


its not just NYC, the heat wave across the country is causing outages as far as California to Florida and Kansas in between...

[b i o n i c]

i've got power... i got flooded pretty good on friday but i still had electricity to run a water vac. that and disinfecting everything was a pain in the balls but nothing got ruined since i have things set up just in case. im on the periphery of town that wasnt affected but there were cops and hovering news choppers all over. i think i saw (http://snltranscripts.jt.org/96/96mchopper4.phtml) chopper 4 (http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=2793)! reminds me of my old apartment where id wake up every morning to the sound of traffic copters whirring close to bridges. a lot of small local business have lost thousands of dollars and people are calling for the ceo of con ed to resign. im calling for the president or whatever of the mta peter kalokow to resign. i sometimes have to wait for three or four crowded trains to pass in the morning before i can fit into one!

[kaiser soze]

woops, I posted this in political discussion:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5209276.stm

once again another year of record high temperatures and the energy crisis they "incur".

Either the infrastructure of this country is in some serious disrepair or the energy Dons are playing politics to gain more momentum to go nuclear.

major cities are in states of emergency, getting very volatile, and citizens are suffering. Keep striving for freedom in the middle ea$t, our country can wait for you to pay attention to it. :mad:

"High gas prices are a sign of a failed presidency." - Dick Cheney, 1998


IMPEACH BUSH

[b i o n i c]

impeach cheney

[kaiser soze]

impeach yo mama

I think I just made a new bumper sticker!

dibs!

[ggirlballa]

whoa! i just found out that my whole neighborhood lost electricity for almost 1 day & a half except for my house & about 4 other houses:eek:


thank u god wow i'm lucky:D

[QueenAdrock]

Wow, and to think I was pissed when I saw my fridge light burned out today.

[kaiser soze]

shit, I got pissed when my toilet clogged

[Loppfessor]

Its going on day 8 and no word when Astoria, Long island City, and surrounding neighborhoods will get power back... Congressmen are requesting a state of emergency and Con Ed has no answers...

is anyone affected (I guess you wouldnt be posting if you were)

Bionic?


Then how come you're not out looting?

[YoungRemy]

Then how come you're not out looting?


a. police have not reported an increase in crime
b.more police have been deployed to affected areas
c. I dont live in Queens
d. am i really supposed to answer this?

[Loppfessor]

d. am i really supposed to answer this?


You already did see A-D

[gorilla]

fucking crybabys. .01% of Queens is without power and already there's bush-bashing. Don't you people have anyting better to do?

[Loppfessor]

fucking crybabys. .01% of Queens is without power and already there's bush-bashing. Don't you people have anyting better to do?


Dude haven't you learned by now all of your, my, and the world's problems are Bush's fault

[YoungRemy]

although I'm no bush basher, more than .01% of Queens is without power... 100,000 people have been affected since this started, and there are still pockets that have no timetable for a return to normalcy...

i blame the heat wave and ConEd's irresponsibility to give an accurate timetable or explanation to elderly residents who need medication and air-conditioning ...

[gorilla]

although I'm no bush basher, more than .01% of Queens is without power... 100,000 people have been affected since this started, and there are still pockets that have no timetable for a return to normalcy...

i blame the heat wave and ConEd's irresponsibility to give an accurate timetable or explanation to elderly residents who need medication and air-conditioning ...

blame god it was his thunderstorm. also don't blame ConEd not unless you fully understand the complexity of the grid that feeds queens.

[monkey]

that shit is crazy because it's one of the more densely populated areas of queens thats been fucked. they're trying to hold coned responsible for the deaths due to heat and lack of electricity. i mean, what if youve got sick children and that? what the hell are they supposed to do? the day of that big storm (it was last sunday!) i kept on worrying that our lights would go out or that a tree would fall on the house. i was paranoid. it was a scary fuckin storm, but then the next day, everyone was like "oh it's ok, everyone's ok." and they said only 2000 households were without light that night. liars. :(

[monkey]

blame god it was his thunderstorm. also don't blame ConEd not unless you fully understand the complexity of the grid that feeds queens.

i do. and i blame coned because that's a problem they said they fixed 4 years ago.

[YoungRemy]

blame god it was his thunderstorm. also don't blame ConEd not unless you fully understand the complexity of the grid that feeds queens.

i just said i blame the weather as the main cause of the problem, and Coned for lying to their customers...

[HEIRESS]

*makes out with hydro power*

[gorilla]

that shit is crazy because it's one of the more densely populated areas of queens thats been fucked. they're trying to hold coned responsible for the deaths due to heat and lack of electricity. i mean, what if youve got sick children and that? what the hell are they supposed to do? the day of that big storm (it was last sunday!) i kept on worrying that our lights would go out or that a tree would fall on the house. i was paranoid. it was a scary fuckin storm, but then the next day, everyone was like "oh it's ok, everyone's ok." and they said only 2000 households were without light that night. liars. :(

WAA WAA WAA!

[beastieangel01]

is this situation freaking anyone else out? I cannot remember when the entire world, or a huge chunk of it, was at such extreme heat levels as it is now.

We were having really hot days here in San Diego and it was very humid when it's almost NEVER humid here. Now, it's still hot and humid, and the clouds are rolled in and it rained yesterday. When it rains here, it's usually December and cold (relatively out), but never ever during the summer, and never while it's warm outside.

What the fuck.

[Extra Cheese]

the city wide blackout didnt even last this long. but queens is pretty wack though so who cares.