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Re: The Great [sic] Queens Blackout Continues; No Relief in Sight

Goudreau_Bob@notchur.biz
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:54:40 -0400

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NOTvalid@Queensbridge.us wrote:

> At this rate, the entire city could have electricity as reliable as Iraq.

Oh puh-leeze. Do I detect a bit of hyperbole in the coverage of this
event? Let's start with the title that someone decided to bestow:
"the GREAT Queens Blackout". The latest estimates from the utility
were that 25,000 customers were without power, which Mayor Bloomberg
said translated into 100,000 residents. This works out to less than 5
percent of the population of Queens and a bit over 1 percent of the
population of New York City as a whole. For a contemporary
comparison, about four times as many people in the St. Louis area are
still without power due to storm damage four days ago.

If the current Queens outage qualifies as a "great" blackout, then how
should we describe the blackout of 2003 that affected most of the
Great Lakes region and some bits of the Northeast, including all of
New York City? Not to mention other occasions when the entire city
went dark, such as 1977 and 1965.

Bob Goudreau
Cary, NC

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