New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

Sat Aug 27 20:07:20 UTC 2011

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Kauto Huopio wrote:
> Interesting, Con Edison planning preemptive power outages..including
> financial district..
>
> http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/aug/27/con-ed-braces-hurricane-irene/

A mis-interpretation of "what-if" plans.  A shutdown in the area would 
occur only if a substation were flooded during the storm; which is no 
different than "what-if" a substation is flooded for any other reason.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/no-plans-to-cut-power-in-lower-manhattan-con-edison-says/