Load shedding in America... Feel Like Pakistan in Extream Hot Weather.
The heat wave left people in Brooklyn Heights coping with power outages. And there have been voltage cuts elsewhere in New York.
Con Ed spokesman Bob McGhee says power demand could break a record set in 2006.
McGhee says about 500 customers in Brooklyn Heights were affected by outages on Friday morning. He predicted service would be restored there around noon.
Con Edison already had reduced power to tens of thousands of customers in Queens and Westchester County.
In the Maspeth section of Queens, the reduction lasted about eight hours until 10 a.m. and affected 107,000 customers.
McGhee said customers may not even notice the voltage reductions.
A power outage on the East Shore has left thousands of Con Edison customers without power in South Beach, Midland Beach, Ocean Breeze and Dongan Hills, in Statan Island, according to a spokesman for the utility.
The affected areas are: Narrows Road South to Capodanno Boulevard; South Railroad Avenue to Linwood Avenue; Hylan Boulevard to Olympia Boulevard, and Greeley Avenue to Midland Avenue.
According to the spokesman, there were approximately 3,700 without power.
The heat wave that has melted the tri-state for the past week has broken a record in New York City, hitting 103 degrees in Central Park by early afternoon.
The heat index was greater than 110 degrees in both New York City and Newark, where temps reached 106. Its the seventh day of the scorching summer heat wave, and the heat is not expected to retreat until Sunday.
The previous Central Park record was 101 degrees, set in 1957.
(Source: AP)
http://www.nybuff.org/2011/07/outage-in-brooklyn-nyc-hits-103-record.html
