Storm Sandy: Power and petrol shortages dog recovery
Found on BBC on Saturday, 03 November 2012
Sandy-related power cuts were still affecting some 2.5 million customers in the US early on Saturday, according to the US Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, quoted by Reuters.
Mayor Bloomberg criticised Lipa for making inadequate progress in restoring power, particularly in the Rockaways, a series of beachfront neighbourhoods hard hit by the storm.
There are always power problems. America's power grid is simply not good enough to handle today's needs and in the past decades nobody cared about improving it.