So the blackout isn’t affecting 2,000 people#–it’s affecting closer to 100,000 people. Whoops!

I found out today that unless you’ve called Con Edison to report power loss, they don’t even know you’re having a problem. Oh. Great. So you couldn’t tell my power is out, even though you have an NYPD Command center three doors down and the Red Cross handing out emergency supplies at the end of the block? You really need me to call you and let you know? And how exactly was I supposed to know I needed to do that? Oh. Wait. You made an announcement on the radio. The one I can’t listen to without power#–thanks a million.

Apparently, Con Edison made its estimates of residents without power only based on who called to complain. And I don’t know why the press keeps saying it went out on Monday. It didn’t. It went out on SUNDAY.

Not that I’m bitter.

Or miss my AC.

The thing I find strange is that the power in St. Louis has been out since only Wednesday (with 160,000 residents’ service restored by Thursday) and that situation has received national news coverage since day one. We’ve been without power since Sunday, and it hasn’t received coverage until today. A lot of people in Manhattan still don’t know the extent of the problem. Grr…