>> One is reporting similar problems in New York City
As far as school stuff, I don’t know - but just spoke with a family member who is a facility electrician at a power plant near Westchester County NY, they have nothing in-house about generation/supply issues anywhere in NY.
This facility does supply energy across Long Island and they are “in the loop” so to speak.
He only added that they (electricians, engineers and mechanics) are on unscheduled overtime and didn’t say why - and no eta in when they’re getting out. Probably nothing to do with down south though.
Maybe jsut a precaution due to what’s going on in Florida. The big Northeast blackout spread far and wide, and I don’t think the power transmission bigwigs have a huge level of confidence that something like that can’t be repeated. If anything did start to happen in the NY grid, they’d look awfully stupid if they’d sent everybody home on schedule while the Florida situation still wasn’t under control.