Brooklyn, NY – Power outages that struck neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens on Friday continued into Saturday afternoon, according to Con Edison.
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Roughly 545 customers were without service in the early afternoon, nearly a third of the 1,700 that originally lost power on Friday. The outages were brought on by the week’s heat wave that brought temperatures to the brink of triple digits, Con Edison said, that left many indoors and seeking respite in front of air-conditioners.
Of the customers without power, 454 of those out of service were in Brooklyn, most of them in South Williamsburg and Borough Park, down from 1,400 customers reported on Friday. Ninety remained without electrical service in Queens, most of them in South Ozone Park.
A spokesperson for Con Edison, Alfonso Quiroz, said Friday that some of the affected areas were not experiencing complete outages, but had less power than normal.
Con Edison predicted that power will be restored to most of the still affected customers by 7 p.m. Saturday, according to its website.
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No reason to complain. ConEd has done an outstanding job restoring power after the big storm and hot weather. These undeground transformer vaults where the failures occurred are very difficult to work in so they are doing the best they can. IN meah shearim, the stone the utility workers who try to make repairs on shabbos, so maybe ConEd workers are worried.
I am just curious what causes power outage in hot weather?
Just wondering we are in 2012 we have drones killing people million miles away we can send people to the moon, but when we get a triple digit weather a city like ny can get paralyze
This entirely has to do with con Ed not updating their equipment as they promise event time they want a rate increase. Some neighborhoods in Brooklyn are using the same infrastructure from the 60’s when people had maybe one air conditioner and a fridge, not 3 a/c’s, 2 computers, fridge, digital kitchen appliances, hi def tv’s, etc. Madison up through Canarsie is all like this.