It has been called NSW’s ‘friendliest city’. The mayor says that might be about to change

The mayor of Broken Hill has decried the lacklustre response to a power outage triggered by a catastrophic storm, which left residents to endure rolling blackouts thanks to unreliable backup generators in stifling heat.A storm on October 16 thrashed transmission lines to the ground, cutting the outback city off from the electricity network and leaving it with one unreliable gas turbine generator, which has failed repeatedly, including for 36 hours on Monday when temperatures hit 30 degrees.“We have been let down over this period,” Broken Hill Mayor Tom Kennedy said at a media conference on Saturday. “A town of 20,000 people, and the people in the surrounding areas, shouldn’t have to have put up with that.The town of Broken Hill in western NSW was cut off from normal power supply earlier this month.Credit: “We are often referred to as the friendliest city. That doesn’t mean we have to be friendly now.”Since the storm, cafes have thrown out tens of thousands of dollars…