Sporadic Power Outages In Montclair

I Driving down Bloomfield Avenue from West Caldwell to Montclair at around 4:15pm, the traffic lights were out on several blocks in Caldwell. I didn't know until just now that there had been failures in Montclair. Strange grid!

Oh Liz, to think you were without your central a/c for forty five minutes! Had I been there I would've puffed up my cheeks and blown on you. In a spirit of Victorian gentility, of course.

Is this possibly related to the strong smell of fire smoke in the air right now??

A transformer caught fire right around the corner of Elston and Norwood.

I got the call at work Wally -- so I was not affected.

What is up with the electrical system around here? This is a very brittle system.

the way i understand it, lasermike, is someone presses lever which makes a ladder spill a paint can which hits a lever sending a bowling ball along a winding track. out pops a man who's scrubbing his back in a bath tub and, if it's all timed right, he hits his head on the green side of an on/off switch.percentages these days, depending on what side of the street you are isn't so hot.

Kudos to the folks at PSE&G for getting the burnt up transformer outage fixed within 30 minutes yesterday!

I love Montclair but when it comes to blackouts and power outages it's more like a Third World country. For instance, Wednesday afternoon (7.3) around 4:30pm on a sunny, 78 degree day the power went out for a couple of hours (again). Since living here for over 16 years, my street in Upper Montclair has had no less than 25 - 30 outages, with out exageration, during that time. What gives?