11/10/13 - I have not been maintaining this gem, and I'm not sure that the Coned endpoints are still available. It may not work as expected.

Sandy is a rubygem for consuming power outage data for the Greater New York area. For a given area, retrieve number of outages, as well as total customers, lat/lng, and estimated time of recovery (depending on the provider).

Currently supports ConEd (NYC), LIPA (Long Island), and PSEG (NJ).

Sandy::Provider::LIPA::Report.new
Sandy::Provider::ConEd::Report.new

Area#name
Area#customers_affected
Area#region
Area#latitude
Area#longitude
Area#total_customers
Area#estimated_recovery_time

report = Sandy::Provider::ConEd::Report.new

areas = report.areas
areas.each do |area|
  puts "#{area.name}, #{area.customers_affected}"
end

# => 

Bronx, 28644
Brooklyn, 37016
Manhattan, 226225
Queens, 85057
Staten Island, 58043
Westchester, 123571

The ConEd outage feed is only updated every 15 minutes. Repeated polling won't get you new results.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sandy'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sandy

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

• NYC Power Status - vizualizations of power outages by neighborhood in NYC