Could this be related to the flooding that hit lower Manhattan 5/1?
The initial outage on Derby week I suspect was due to flooding at DRF's data center (that was the same part of lower Manhattan I believe that flooded when Sandy hit) as that part of Manhattan got hit I believe with 5-6" of rain the Tuesday night and Wednesday before the Derby. It's quite possible this power outage was related to that rainstorm before the Derby much like what happened with the Montauge Street subway tunnel that connects lower Manhattan and Brooklyn after Sandy flooded it (they did get it re-opened for nine months before having to close the tunnel last August to completely rebuild it, which won't be completed until sometime in October I believe).
Wouldn't shock me if power problems related to the May 1 storm caused this.
And the title should have been corrected to the storms, not flooding on 5/1.
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