How can one trust a company called "Con Edison"?

[survivor999]

All in Queens Have Power Now, Con Ed Says
By JAMES BARRON

Consolidated Edison said early this morning that it had restored electricity to all the customers who endured a blackout in an eight-square-mile chunk of northwest Queens for more than a week.

And Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg detailed a new agreement between Con Edison and the city to expedite the processing of claims for spoiled food and medicine and to help Queens businesses recover.

Joy Faber, a spokeswoman for the company, told The Associated Press that some customers in the area may still experience low voltage or occasional outages.

Con Ed has estimated that at its worst, the blackout affected about 25,000 customers, but a “customer,” to the utility company, can be anything from a one-family house to a large apartment building.

The rule of thumb is to figure that there are four people for every “customer,” so at the height of the blackout 100,000 people were without lights, elevators and air-conditioning during one of the hottest weeks of the year.

“Today, even as we continue some of our short-term emergency response efforts, we are beginning to offer long-term assistance and support for Queens residents and businesses that suffered through the power outage,” Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement today.


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[Opusnone]

1. How about Custer Battles?

Should have seen that one coming from the horizon.

[mike_c]

2. since no one else has said it...

...I presume that you know the company is actually called Consolidated Edison. Con Ed is a colloquialism. (No, I'm not usually a grammar nazi....)

[Xenotime]

3. LOL I just read your title..

.and it reminded me of an electronics store called Con's. I could never bring myself to buy anything from them.

[Posteritatis]

7. There's a "Dr. N. Fahmie" a few blocks from me. I'm afraid. (nt)

[fedupinBushcountry]

4. A blackout or a brownout?

My son lives in Queens and he could use a small light in his room which was very dim , but nothing else, and he finally got full usage on Monday.

He said he is going to write a LTTE to the paper. His logic is that they couldn't let people in the poorer areas go without and of course they couldn't let the rich go with out so they picked Queens. The thing is if you have a blackout, how in the world is electricity still going through when they are fixing the problem.

Is he wrong in his logic?

[liontamer]

5. he's lucky

not everyone had any power. The issue seemed to be the very haphazard wiring, and the equally haphazard approach to fixing it. Technicians were literally going door to door asking if there was power. :shrug: I don't think the region was picked to bear the brunt of brownout, but I do think that Con Ed's infrastructure is fundamentally unsound (as really we learned from the last blackout.)

[fedupinBushcountry]

6. To him

one dim light is not power, they lost all their food in their refrigerator. He ended up staying at his girlfriend's place who lives across the street, she got power back on last Thursday. Sounds to me like their infrastructure sucks.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

8. I've been CONnED

thats what I say when i get my bill every month :grr: