BOERUM HILL - POWER OUTAGES disrupted parts of Boerum Hill and Park Slope through the weekend after melting snow mixed with road salt damaged underground electrical equipment, reported. The problems began late Friday, with residents reporting flickering lights, partial blackouts and appliances shutting off unexpectedly. By 10 p.m. Friday, about 480 customers were affected; that figure rose to roughly 1,100 by midday Sunday across several Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Ukraine and its neighbor Moldova both experienced power outages on Saturday amid problems on Ukraine's grid, officials said. The grid emergency caused a halt to Kyiv's water supply and metro operations, while most districts in Moldova's capital, Chisinau, were without electricity, they said.
Loading your fridge with frozen ice packs ahead of time can help keep it cool if the power shuts down, and grouping cold food together can help it stay cool even as the temperature warms. It also helps to have a separate cooler ready to move any perishable items into during a prolonged outage. But no matter how else you prepare, you should also stave off odors by using a sponge.
BROOKLYN, NY - Dozens of homes in Southern Brooklyn are without power after overhead wires caught fire, Con Edison officials said. According to officials, overhead power wires caught fire on East 48th Street between Church Avenue and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush just before 3 a.m. Wednesday. No one was injured in the fire, authorities said. On Wednesday morning, Con Edison officials reported that nearly 80 homes remain without power. Crews have been dispatched to the area and are working to restore service as quickly as possible.
ORINDA, Calif. (KGO) -- BART has issued an alert Wednesday morning that service on the Yellow line has stopped between Concord and Orinda in the East Bay because of a trackside power issue. The transit agency says it is a power loss issue involving the third rail between the impacted stations. A bus bridge has been requested between the stations, but there are already major delays as a result of the stoppage.
Linda Williams, 86, has been without heating, lighting and a working phone for the best part of five days. She is trying to keep warm by layering up and she picks her way around her home in the remote Cornish village of New Mill with old battery lamps from her days of caravanning. I think it's safe to say that we're in a bit of a state, said Williams, a retired council accounts assistant. But it can't go on for ever can it?
"The lapse \"resulted in NIST UTC [universal coordinated time] being 4.8 microseconds slower than it should have been,\" NIST spokesperson Rebecca Jacobson said in an email. That's just under 5 millionths of a second. To understand just how brief an instant that is, Jacobson noted that it takes a person about 350,000 microseconds to blink."
