Power outage in parts of New York City, officials say

a reply to: PhilbertDezineck

His mansion is on the East Side I believe. The power outage is on the West Side.

a reply to: letni

Are you saying that this is like how every year the oil companies have an "accident" that causes gas prices to go up right before travel season?

I like the way you think, but I think it's just bad use of funds for the city that never sleeps.

a reply to: queenofswords

Hillary's laboratory is on the west side. It's connected directly to Commonwealth Edison's main feeder.

Well written new story 43,000 sounds a lot better than power out in 0.53% of New York .

I believe they call that the hook . Lol

MSM really "stressing" the "only one transformer" story !! 😃

originally posted by: Nickn3

originally posted by: xuenchen
Times Square is dark !! 😧

Nine months later, a baby boom!

I don't think they need the lights off for that in New York City....

Well over 50,000 residents in Louisiana are without power do to tropical storm Barry, but that apparently isn't news worthy.

a reply to: xuenchen

Blackout happening on the same day of the 1977 New York City Blackout. Gotta love those coincidences.

Reports of people stuck on elevators and subways and citizens directing snarled traffic.

www.foxnews.com...

As of 9 p.m. Saturday, Con Edison reported that more than 45,000 customers were without power in an area that included Midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side. The New York Fire Department said the outages impacted 71st Street south to 42 Street and east from the West Side Highway to 5th Avenue.

This constant hyper-reporting about the NY outage is crazy drama. Part of the West side in mid Manhattan had a transformer blow and now it is hours and hours of talking about the darkness. Not even breaking for commercials!

Meanwhile, a hurricane, albeit a small one, hits Louisiana, and tens of thousands are without power and dealing with high water issues, and...crickets.

OMG!!!!! A part of Manhattan is dark and the world is falling apart.

His mansion is on the East Side I believe. The power outage is on the West Side.
a reply to: queenofswords

Did not know that thanks.

Power just came back on.

Subway service, however, will continue to be screwed up for days!

ConED --- 61,000+ customers cut off !!!!

Hundreds of thousands of people !!

😧

News reporting the blackout has spread !! 💥

Cover-up for the ICE Raids ????? 😀

a reply to: xuenchen

News reporting the blackout has spread !!

Fake news! Most areas restored. Times Square area up. I’m here in NYC.

Environmentalists concerned about too much carbon from diesel generators !! 😃

If Jeffrey Epstein is in New York I hope to God he has a 20 person security detail keeping him "safe".

ConED now says 73,000 "customers" !!!!!

originally posted by: xuenchen
Cover-up for the ICE Raids ????? 😀

Or to help with the raids.

This was my first thought.

This is a fine example of how fragile out aging infrastructure is, and NY is only one example. I remember a while ago debating in a thread with another ATS member who was advocating that EVERYONE should live in the city. They were adamant about it having everything, and poo-poo'd my statement on the fragility of it all.

Well, here we are. A single transformer in an aging substation burns up, causing a cascading tripping of overload circuits all along the tree.

Yeah, everyone should live here....HAHA. Suburbs and country might get blackouts, but they deal with them a lot better than looting and needing rescue from elevators and subways tunnels underground.