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New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene
- Subject: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene
- From: sean at donelan.com (Sean Donelan)
- Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:07:20 -0400 (EDT)
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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/