While crews with Con Edison have made progress restoring power to the five boroughs following the wind-related outages caused by Tropical Storm Isaias, more than 33,000 customers remain powerless in the five boroughs. And they're not expected to get their electricity back until 11 p.m. on Sunday night.
Manhattan stands as the only borough where full service has been restored to Con Edison's customers, according to a press release Con Edison sent out early this morning. Queens holds the largest number of outages with 19,000, with the Bronx at 9,700, Staten Island with 3,200, and Brooklyn with 1,400 customers still out. In Westchester County, 53,000 customers remain without service.
The storm on Tuesday packed a wallop, bringing gusty winds of 70 miles per hour in New York that caused widespread outages. At the height of the blackout, some 300,000 customers were left without power. That prompted Con Edison officials to deem the outage is the second worst next to Superstorm Sandy.
Con Edison has enlisted the help of outside utility companies to help restore power, with 1,230 contractors working alongside the 1,700 Con Edison workers. They say crews have been working "84 straight hours" since the storm hit, clearing out downed trees that became entangled in wires.
The New York City Office of Emergency Management has been managing tree removals across the city.
"Queens specifically has been the hardest hit," said OEM commissioner Deanne Criswell of the downed trees. "Right now, we have over 1500 people working on clearing trees across the city, and 153 of those are in Queens. We're continuing to bring in additional resources, and reassigning some of of other personnel from city agencies to help support the tree removal efforts."
Flushing, Bayside, Astoria, and Woodside are being given priority to have downed trees cleared. It will take next week to have all those trees removed.
The restoration also came when a pop-up blackout knocked out electricity to 180,000 customers on Friday morning. The incident--which cut off power to 187,000 customers in the Upper West Side, Upper East Side, and Harlem in Manhattan, and 77,000 customers in Maspeth, Queens.
Update:
CBS New York's report from Woodhaven, one of the men at the end of the video says it all about the city's and Con Ed's response.
16 comments:
QC Reader said...
Hooray we are first !
Transplanted Hipster said...
When are my bike lanes going to get cleaned from the storm ?
I need to ride my bike from Forest Hills to LIC and have my beard trimmed .
The OEM commissioner says that Queens is the hardest hit with down trees and there are 1,500 people citywide working to remove trees and 153 of them are in Queens.
Again Queens gets the shaft. If you evenly divide the 1500 people among the 5 boros, there should be at least double that amount in Queens taking care of trees if you had a fair ratio. In reality Queens should even have a larger share of workers than say Manhattan because there are more trees down here.
Again our useless politicians are no where to be found. Why are they not questioning this? Let's keep re-electing the same morons solely because they are democrat.
Well drive around Queens on a good day and look at all those old trees. Trees on 65 Place in Maspeth are still the trees I saw as a child and now bigger and older and I’m only 50. Some of those branches are littering the street now after the storm.
The city should go around and inspect trees when they are in full bloom to see all the dead branches. Don’t prune trees in the mid Spring when you can’t tell a dead branch from a live one.
Burglar alarms off, search lites out, everybody paroled from prison by the lefties, can NYC get much worse?
Again our useless politicians are no where to be found. Why are they not questioning this? Let's keep re-electing the same morons solely because they are democrat.
Because, dear Queens resident, you ask the same pointless questions like this endlessly and do nothing else. Most people over the age of 8 or 10 start to take some responsibility to dress and start to actively take care of the themselves and look after their interests rather than to whine and expect mommy and daddy to do the heavy lifting.
Burglar alarms off, search lites out, everybody paroled from prison by the lefties, can NYC get much worse?
I didn't hear of any looting during any of these blackouts, so that's some good news.
Cut all these old trees down and plant new ones. Use the wood for hipster artisan smoked coffee and BBQ. Let NYers 80 years free m now worry about it
I didn't know Paul Bunyan lives in Queens!
Maybe if the mayor had spent some of that money he used to paint black lives matter slogans on the streets of New York and use some of that money to a trim the trees in the five boroughs maybe that would have been more productive
Trees haven't been cleared over by me (in Elm, near what used to be called South Elmhurst) yet. A lot of is simply a lack of manpower. And residents not knowing how to properly report fallen trees or lines, and to whom (the appropriate agency). To echo other commentators correct observations: trees are not immortal. They grow old and die, as do people. The largest, thickest ones had the best chance of surviving - but there are too many trees of "middling" age, that are neither thin enough to bend with strong winds, nor thick enough to withstand them. So they snap and fall over - especially when the pits they are planted within are TOO SHALLOW AND TOO NARROW.
According to the Daily News:
"Weeks before Isaias, the year's tree trimming budget was sliced by 80%."
Great planning by our NYC leaders, as usual.
Moe said...
@Paul Bunyan said... You are on to something. Many of the trees planted in NYC years ago where the wrong type for a Urban city.
You didn't and won't hear of any looting because of all your left-wing news outlets in NYC. But your murder rates are through the roof. And by the way - what hurricane? You had a little wind storm.
@ TommyR said... "TOO SHALLOW AND TOO NARROW" Just like the minds of the Far-Leftist residents who call NYC home ! DemoRat controled NYC and NYS are toast-SUCKERS...
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