Mahwah Neighborhood Loses Power During Super Bowl
O&R says "tree contact" with a power line is to blame for the 50-minute interruption to the game
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One Mahwah neighborhood missed out on a significant chunck of Sunday night's Super Bowl game thanks to a power outage that officials are saying was caused by a tree interfering with a power line.
Accoring to Mike Donovan, a representative of Orange and Rockland Utilities, power was out on Robin Road and some surrounding streets from 8:11 p.m. to 9:01 p.m. Sunday night. "Tree contact [on a power line] was the cause of the outage," he said.
About 27 Mahwah households were affected by the 50-minute long interruption to the game.
One resident said the outage put a damper on her Super Bowl festivities. "[We missed] about a half hour of the game and 90 percent of the half time show," the Crescent Ridge Road resident told Patch. "The power [went] out for an hour right at half time durning the Super Bowl!"
Glenn Murphy
2:19 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Ah...POOR "Upper Income People"... They had to do with OUT Electricity for a "Little while" and there "CRYING"...
GUESS they "GAMBLED" and was looking for the Score of the game, so they can make the "MORTAGE PAYMENT"..
Beverly Darrell Vriesema
4:11 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
LOL THEY NEED TO GET ONTO THE POWER COMPANY TO START UPPING THEIR WORK IN THAT AREA FOR TRIMMING TREES. THEY COULDVE USED THEIR SMARTPHONES TO GET THE GAME IF THEY REALLY WANTED TOO.