Hi all,
Your wondering aren't you,where did i go? Well i did not go anywhere, sadly i've had no power for the last 24 hours. So i'm home last night around 11 pm and sitting in my living room watching t.v. and all my lights start flickering. Out of no where i hear a huge explosion . Car alarms and house alarms are going off, and when the boom happened my whole house shook very bad. Now my lights are going on and off , I start thinking now what. The explosion woke ds and dw up. I go look outside and right in front of my house the man hole cover is off its cover and there are flames and thick black smoke pouring out of the man hole. So i grab my phone and began to 911 call and it's ringing and all my power finally goes dead, along with my phone. I have internet cable and modem that supplys my phone it needs power to work, so i go back inside and grab my cell phone,but now i can here the FDNY comming with there sirens blasting. So i don't bother calling 911. The Transformer that supplys power to my whole block has overheated and exploded , believe it or not this is common in brooklyn in the heat and happens alot in the summer time in other areas of nyc, its never happened to my street.
So the FDNY pulls up and its confirmed the Transformer has overheated and is gone dead, along with my most of my block. I also know what this means, no power for us. This same thing happened in queens over the summer and the whole neighborhood was left without power for 9 days long in 90+ heat.At this point i have 3 fire trucks , 2 ambulances and 3 police cars all in front of my house. I have another worrie on my mind and so does the FDNY, when these things burn they throw off a ton of carbon monoxide. Before i can ask them what the levels are , 2 of the fire men come over and ask my wife to come into the house to check levels of co. Anyway i have several co alarms and none are going off,so i know my house is ok but my next door neighbor has very high readings.Anyway the FDNY vented her house and all was well. Con edison( power company in nyc) is here now and checking out the man hole. So just one hour ago all my power came back on ,but its only temp. Con ed has hooked up temporary lines for power right now But i am just happy to have power. So there it is , some how even off duty Trouble seems to find me and so does the FDNY.
sounds scary!
All right gang , i ahve to run to the fire house for a shift tonight , see you all later!!
