Record tides from a wintry super storm combined with hours
of pounding wind and rain to deal an unprecedented blow at the U.S Northeast’s
power grid, flooding electrical substations and shutting down New York City’s
financial district, Bloomberg reports.
At nightfall, Consolidated Edison, New York City’s utility,
killed power in parts of downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn as seawater encroached
on crucial electrical equipment and warned more power cuts may be coming. Crews
in Connecticut threw up a dike around a substation serving downtown Stamford
and stood ready to shut down four others should floodwaters rise by the
forecast 11 feet....
As of 8 p.m. in New York yesterday, the storm had knocked
out power to some 3.6 million homes and businesses, according to the U.S.
Energy Department. That figure may increase overnight. Power blackouts that may eventually affect as
many as 10 million people in the region for as long as 10 days left homes in
the dark, closed the stock market, and disrupted operations at refineries,
pipelines and power plants….
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