New Yorkers Face 3-4 Days Without Full Power, 4-5 Days Without Subway

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"Unprecedented" damage to New York City's power and transport grid won't be easy to fix.

Mayor Bloomberg said at a press conference that he guesses it will take 3-4 days to bring power fully back online; 4-5 days to fix the subways.

There are currently 750,000 New Yorkers without power.

"Our administration will move heaven and earth to help [Con Ed and the MTA]," said Bloomberg.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-faces-3-4-days-without-full-power-4-5-days-without-subway-2012-10#ixzz2AnUjgMuI

[aquart]

1. November 6 is next week.

What now?

[speedoo]

3. Fortunately, most NYers can walk to their polling places.. Subways not needed to vote.

I am more worried about Pennsylvania.

[aquart]

7. Yeah, that was what I thought.

Think everyone in lower Manhattan is still home? I'm not.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. priority one is public safety.

[speedoo]

2. The subways system will take much longer than 4-5 days to fix.

That 4-5 day estimate will apply to bringing parts of the system back on line. It will take far longer to bring the system back 100%.

[Cal Carpenter]

4. He was very vague about the subways in his initial speech at the presser

and only offered the 4-5 days comment as a response to a question by a reporter for a 'guess'.

I really hope it is true, but I have this nagging fear that the subways will be out longer. It's great that they had moved all the actual subway cars out of the tunnels so they didn't get damaged, but until they give more specific info it is still sort of an unknown.

I hope my fears are wrong - I am just thinking about the millions of working people who rely on this to get to their hourly jobs, who cannot afford to miss a day let alone a week of work, who may also be suffering from other loss and damage or costs or injuries due to the storm.

Ugh, for whatever reason this is what I am stuck on.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. wow. 3-4 days without power in NYC is a very long time.

keep safe new yorkers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. And this is why you listen to Emergency Officials advise

On an emergency kit in NYC. I had this argument with a couple folks here on DU. Unfortunately they just got that lesson

[zappaman]

9. It's not really an argument

if you just bring condescending remarks and not address the issue.
Then again, you never do.

[slackmaster]

10. I hope people stored enough drinking water in their homes

Without electricity, often water cannot be pumped.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. And canned food

Cooking is not possible and bodegas will be out of them within 24. They are not getting ressuplied.

[zappaman]

12. Not entirely true.

Recently, I found an invention called a grill.
It uses coals to cook food.
As a first responder, I thought you might find this tidbit of info useful.