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Had is the heart of tourists of new york city. a lot of the tourists are amused by this, a lot of the residents like myself and family are annoyed. hopefully this is nothing more than a nuisance, some elderly residents for some people who need to get up and down, elevators, this has been a problem, we know the police and fire responded to dozens of calls about elevator outages. i'm looking out at the nearby buildings. i see, first of all, the moon starting to light up new york city. second, some neighbors bringing out canned ems, finding ways to create light. in some office buildings, you see ...

I saw it before this incident happened, remembering that moment in new york city in the 1970s and how scary that was for folks. so it is ironic and weird and a little twilighty, that it is happening so many years later. i have another update if you want me to give you more information. so the latest information i have is, i just got this. 38,000 customers without, including lincoln center, st. luke's roosevelt hospital center, on west 59th street in hell's kitchen, roosevelt hospital is reporting that power is lost but they are operating on a back-up generator. they have no air conditioning, p...

Amtrak, of course, which operates a number of trains that come into new york's penn station. and accordingly, apparently, new york's penn station is now operating off backup generators. they're tweeting, trains, they say are not being affected at this time. we do know the subways, those who use mass transit in that form are impacted. in fact, there are very few subway lines still operating right now as, again, they work to get a handle on this power outage. mayor bill de blasio, he has been out on the campaign trail in iowa. he now is returning to new york city to deal with this blackout. powe...

System is always one hundred percent operational all the backups are in place, the best design is in place, so it is one substation fails you don't have a domino of over substations this is not the first time that i have been with mr. mcevoy going to look at substation in a failed, right? i have seen this movie. and the system has to be designed in a way that one substation can fail but doesn't ripple, and we have to have a system that has redunnedancy backup we are lucky tonight the emergency workers did a great job, but we don't have any reports of people stuck on subway trains that could ha...

Well, georgia power has released photographs that show us the kind of tunnels and saying here's the very tight space where the fire occurred and it's where the backup line runs so you have the primary and backup line running very close together and the work space there, it took a long time to ventilate it to make it safe for the workers to get down there and make the repairs that were necessarily. all of this is apparently a way to try to explain why the world's busiest airport became the biggest waiting room for 11 hours. that's what most people can't understand. 11 hours. no backup generator...