According to its power failure map, many Con Edison customers in Queens and Brooklyn could be without power until Monday morning. “It is the third day of the heat wave, so the system is really baking at this point,” said Alfonso Quiroz, a spokesman for Con Edison. PSEG Long Island had wrestled with its own power failure Saturday night that left thousands without power in the Rockaways. It was a tragic coda to a sweltering heat wave that began Friday, with temperatures that hovered consistently in the mid-90s. Halfway up that Northeast corridor, the heat delayed a Greyhound bus traveling Sunday morning to New York from Boston.

Source: bd News24 July 22, 2019 03:33 UTC