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    Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Viva Las Espuelas's Avatar
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    Oh yeah, they work pretty good but when everybody plugs 2 or 3 in either circuit breakers start popping or wires start burning up.
    yep. went camping this past weekend and tripped the breaker with 2 running on them. and they were just running at 65 degrees. damn things tripped at 4 in the morning.

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    All those flooded high rises have their boilers and mechanical rooms in the basement sitting in salt water this morning...at a minimum the burners and gas trains will have to be replaced...and these are all "built on order" items with typical lead times of 8-10 weeks...with the massive damage I could see the lead times jumping to 2-3 months...and they won't have any heat till they replace them.
    Sucks to be them.
    Typical 1%er. There are a lot of cold people in NY EVERY winter. You're only cognizant of it because some of them now may wear suits and tip their doorman.

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    Typical 1%er. There are a lot of cold people in NY EVERY winter. You're only cognizant of it because some of them now may wear suits and tip their doorman.
    You know you can use a bucket or trash can and not in the hallway, right?

    http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/n...ways/177007621

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    i guess obama hates black people.......

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    The fuel lines are what's killing the locals right now.

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    The highest temperature over the next 4 days is 47 degrees in New York.

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    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — While most of Manhattan had its power restored about four days after Superstorm Sandy, persistent problems in some places continue to make life miserable more than two weeks later for hundreds of elderly and ill residents who have been forced to live in cold, dark high-rises.

    As CBS 2’s Amy Dardashtian reported, those residents were demanding answers Tuesday night.

    At Knickerbocker Village — a housing complex bounded by Monroe Street, Market Street, Catherine Street and Cherry Street on the Lower East Side – a hallway stunk of rotten eggs Tuesday night.

    “It’s a nasty odor that makes you want to throw up,” one resident said.

    But the stench was the least of the woman’s problems. She had to use a cooler as a refrigerator.

    It was the 16th day without power, and she was also boiling her water. She was lacking hot water, too.

    Even her dog was bundled in sweaters.

    Trash was piling up, the incinerators were all broken, and out of 12 elevator banks, nearly half were out of service. The elderly residents were left stranded as high as a dozen flights up.


    “The coldness is draining and it doesn’t stop; just never gets warm,” said Marcia Kruger, 73.

    Kruger said she had spent two weeks as of Tuesday walking 10 flights of stairs a day.

    “It makes for a feeling of isolation and abandonment, really,” she said.

    “I take about two trips a day,” he said.

    Jim Lizzio, 96, said he walks 100 steps a day.

    Lizzio’s wife said she was concerned about safety.

    “Especially in the dark, with our flashlights it’s ‘Don’t break a hip. Don’t break a leg,’” she said.

    Lizzio and his wife were among hundreds demanding answers from management at a meeting Tuesday night at P.S. 1 Alfred E. Smith at 8 Henry St.

    “Between now and the end of the week, we should get to a point where everyone has heat and everyone has hot water,” a management official said.

    Management claimed that the 100-year-old electrical systems in the basements of the Knickerbocker Village were decimated by flood waters. Afterward came oil spills and fires – hazards that management was not prepared for.

    Management said as of Tuesday night, 95 percent of the 1,600-unit complex had power – a claim that residents denied.

    Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said the Knickerbocker is just one of several complexes across Manhattan that was never updated to withstand a hurricane.

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