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brooklynite

(94,572 posts) Mon Oct 29, 2012, 09:25 PM Oct 2012

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Con Ed: 250,000 people in Manhattan without power

Power out south of 39th st

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Con Ed: 250,000 people in Manhattan without power (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2012 OP

Yes, they cut the power as a precaution when Battery Park Warpy Oct 2012 #1

Warpy

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1. Yes, they cut the power as a precaution when Battery Park

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 09:26 PM

Oct 2012

flooded and the water started to creep up a few streets.

That's the fatal flaw with buried power lines, electricity + water = bad things.

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