A resident of Newtown Towers looks out from his balcony during a multi-day power outage that left the senior residents without air conditioning, refrigeration or elevators.
Residents of senior apartments in Newtown Square relied on their own wits and on each other to get through a four-day power outage that had them battling sweltering conditions after last week’s storm, writes Eva Andersen and Will Kenworthy for CBS Philadelphia.
Power returned at 3 PM Monday to Newtown Towers, an apartment complex. The outage left dozens of older adults, many on fixed incomes with only limited mobility, without air conditioning, elevators, or refrigeration…