New York's power is coming back after Manhattan spent hours in the dark

[question everything]

Source: CNN

Power was starting to come back to parts of New York on a warm Saturday night as ConEdison restored electrical service on the west side of Manhattan after widespread power outages canceled shows and sent tens of thousands of people onto darkened streets, officials said.

There were 50,000 customers without power in New York, most of them in Midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side, utility company ConEdison said on its website. At its peak, the number was about 73,000, CEO John McAvoy said. The company estimated most customers will have power restored by midnight, he said. As he spoke to reporters, the lights came on in buildings behind him and the crowd cheered loudly.

Just before the lights and air conditioners began to come back on, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the numbers of customers without power had soared from 20,000 right after the blackout started because transformers kept tripping.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/13/us/new-york-power-outages/index.html

[applegrove]

1. There were over 70,000 customers without power. Most are back on.n/t

[James48]

2. Seriously?

70,000 out for less than 6 hours gets this much press?

Heck, on an average Michigan spring thunderstorm we get more out than that.
And usually up to 750,000 if it’s a heavy thunderstorm. WTF?

I guess it must be unusual for New York.

[Hortensis]

4. :) Whenever NYC has an "event," it's the news that goes down.

[question everything]

8. Concentrated on small area

and, of course, many tourists and Broadway shows.

[Historic NY]

3. Wait when they take the Indian Point nuke plant off line in Harrison NY...2021

they seem to think that natural gas is going to save it all.

[DeminPennswoods]

5. Baby boomlet coming!

[James48]

6. Nah- they USED to do that when the lights went out

Now they just continue to tap away on their cellphones. The power wasn’t off long enough for everybody's Cellphones to die, for them to get bored, and try to think of something else to do.

[Aristus]

7. That's an urban legend.

In the wake of the 1965 and 1977 NYC blackouts, the birth rate actually went down nine months later. People dealing with the stresses of a blackout, i.e. inconvenience, loss of services such as air conditioning, refrigeration, computer, etc, and fears of increased crime will naturally be in a less-than-amorous mood.