{"id":1311,"date":"2006-07-19T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T18:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/phew_now_thats_hot.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:59:39","slug":"phew_now_thats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/phew_now_thats.html","title":{"rendered":"Phew . . . Now That&#8217;s Hot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was <em>so<\/em> hot that we couldn&#8217;t help but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/436255p-367565c.html\">read about it the following day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On a day when the mercury climbed to 95 at Central Park and 99 at LaGuardia Airport, city dwellers dealt with blackouts in some spots, stalled subways and canceled flights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where I live I can&#8217;t go to the pool because it&#8217;s so packed,&#8221; said lower East Sider Jennifer Osorio, 30, who trekked all the way to Harlem to take a dip.<\/p>\n<p>There were so many swimmers at the pool at Tompkins Square Park on Avenue A that lifeguards were rotating them in and out of the water every 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>And at Coney Island yesterday, bathers griped about all the trash strewn on the beach after a weekend that saw 1.7 million people flock to Brooklyn&#8217;s sandy cool spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I picked up two hypodermic needles,&#8221; said Carol O&#8217;Donnell of Brooklyn, who took her 8-year-old granddaughter, Kara, to the famed beach.<\/p>\n<p>City officials said the mess was due to five of the 23 giant beachcomber machines breaking down.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and business owners staying inside under air conditioners consumed 12,869 megawatts of power, the second-highest figure in city history.<\/p>\n<p>The power drain sparked a blackout at LaGuardia Airport, prompting Delta and American Airlines to cancel flights between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The 1, 2, 3, V and W trains were either stalled or diverted because of lost signal power between 9:16 a.m. and 10:59 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The city Emergency Medical Service saw heat-related calls spike from a normal of two a day to 42 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In Astoria, Queens, 470 Con Edison customers were left in the dark, and 3,500 more were without juice in Westchester.<\/p>\n<p>As manhole covers exploded and power lines caught fire, Michael Hardy of Astoria sat in his car with the air conditioning on. &#8220;I can&#8217;t get air conditioning inside my apartment,&#8221; he explained.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was so hot that we couldn&#8217;t help but read about it the following day: On a day when the mercury climbed to 95 at Central Park and 99 at LaGuardia Airport, city dwellers dealt with blackouts in some spots, stalled subways and canceled flights. &#8220;Where I live I can&#8217;t go to the pool because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}