Hundreds in Brooklyn without power as temperatures plummet to single digits during record-shattering cold
Hundreds of Brooklyn residents will have no power or heat through Monday morning as temperatures plunged into the single digits following a devastating outage that started late Saturday evening.Roughly 1,500 Con Ed customers in Brooklyn were still without power Sunday afternoon as technicians scrambled to patch outage hotspots amid a record-shattering cold snap over the weekend.The mercury dropped to 3 degrees in the city Sunday, with bitter wind chills dragging the real feel temperatures to 14 degrees below zero.Bushwick felt the brunt of the outage, with an estimated 1,000 residents still impacted as of Sunday night, according to the Con Ed power outage grid.Con Ed originally estimated power would be restored by 3 p.m.Sunday, but later pushed it to 7 a.m.
Monday.Residents with electric heat were forced to brave the bone-chilling temps by either bundling up at home or seeking refuge with relatives or at one of the city’s warming centers.
Camilla, a 35-year-old DJ who lives in Bushwick, lost her heating Sunday afternoon and retreated to a nearby warming center.“I feel like we are in freaking Alaska.
It’s extremely cold indoors,” she told The Post while bundled up in a puffer jacket.Camilla’s two pet cats are with her for now as she rushes to find “emergency boarding for them.” She said she plans to “wear all my clothes, put on all my layers” if she decides to sleep in her apartment Sunday night. “It’s crazy.I just don’t understand how Con Ed is managing this situation, but I didn’t see any urgency,” she said.“It’s a crazy situation.
What if you don’t have friends or family around? What would you do?” she wondered.Michael Murphy, a 60-year-old dad of two, said he’s shelling out $477 for two nights at a hotel after losing heat.“We were going to stay with in-laws in Staten Island, but we thought, you know what, let’s make this enjoyable,” Murphy told The Post.“It’s dark and cold.You feel the temperature slowly go do...