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20 July 2006

I have no power. Grrrr.

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 09:40 | 20 comments

But you're a superhero!

posted by Miko 20 July | 09:41

We still have power, but all the stores on 31st are out or running on minimal power. Any word on when it should be restored?

posted by jonmc 20 July | 09:47

!
Wow, I need to keep up with the news more.
Brownouts?

We lost power in Buffalo, briefly, a couple days ago. I was at work at the time, and our phones don't even work without electricity. You could hear swearing from every corner of the building, in more languages than I could count. I never knew we had such an international workforce.

posted by kellydamnit 20 July | 09:55

There was a reporter (a pretty asian lady) from fox news 5 on the corner of Ditmars & 31st this morning covering the power problems. I took a picture.

posted by jonmc 20 July | 09:57

*flips master switch for TPS*

Did it work?

(jon... check your email : )

posted by Pips 20 July | 10:02

I took a picture

No shit?

posted by essexjan 20 July | 10:02

And, most likely, all those damned stores in Midtown are blasting their a/c onto the sidewalk as a comeon for foot traffic.

posted by danf 20 July | 10:19

my summer intern lives in midtown and she has no power either...

posted by gaspode 20 July | 10:33

(me and pips will be at Bull McCabe's on St. Marks today after 5:30, if any one wants to hang out)

posted by jonmc 20 July | 10:36

No official word on when it'll be totally back, but I've heard rumors of as late as Sunday.

And yea, I do have "minimal power"- enough to turn on a light bulb or two. I'm mad they even call that minimal power- "minimal" to me implies all the necessary appliances (the fridge! the hot water heater!) work. Mine don't.

Showering over lunch at the gym. Fun.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 July | 10:37

I haven't had any power since Tues night. Also, a huge tree on our property sheared off during the storm and smashed our outside lights and our roof and some shutters and all of our gutters and a piece of it broke off and punctured our roof like a huge wooden spear and broke through our ceiling and there was a bunch of water damage and all of our food went bad and we couldn't sleep Tuesday night or last night because it was too hot and um...we have no power.

And I missed Project Runway. Grrr.

posted by iconomy 20 July | 10:44

Someone posted on Gothamist that Con-Edison is saying NEXT WEEK SOMETIME MAYBE for full restoration of power. WTF? What are we supposed to do until then???

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 July | 10:44

I love it when the power goes out. You can see the stars and light a fire in the backyard and drink warm beer and tell stories. Just like people did in the 1950s, before electricity came along.

posted by cmonkey 20 July | 11:54

cmonkey, that's fun for about 3 hours. But it's been over 24 hours for me, and several days for people I know, and it's not fun anymore. I drank warm OJ this morning. I WANT MY POWER BACK!!!!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 July | 12:13

I have power. But my ice cream still has no bones.

posted by mullacc 20 July | 12:30

No shit?

♥

posted by Eideteker 20 July | 13:07

Showering over lunch at the gym? *shudder* I hope you get power soon.

posted by halonine 20 July | 13:31

Hey, I don't mean to derail here, but can anyone else see the comments in TL's post above this one? It brings up a blank screen for me. Is it broken?

posted by mudpuppie 20 July | 13:49

I can!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 20 July | 14:14

This is why I support the ability to connect a home exercise machine to a generator or bank of batteries.

You could get your workout in AND keep your fridge running.

posted by fenriq 20 July | 16:10

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