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Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:39:22 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:40:37 PM EDT
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Are you people fucking retarded? Shit like this happens every summer.
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Uhhh....not in this scale on Manhattan it doesn’t.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:41:02 PM EDT
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I heard reports that the sub way system is with out power and pitch black inside, would not want to be stuck down there in one of those tunnels.
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Everyone has a light on their phones now, so it's not as bad as it could be.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:41:08 PM EDT
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So how long until people start complaining about electric inequality.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:41:51 PM EDT
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Anyone eating strangers they found in the NY subway system is gonna get what they deserve.
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Hepatitis!  
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:41:56 PM EDT
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Potato Gun
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In NYC?  They’d lock you in the pantry for 20 years.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:42:00 PM EDT
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Anyone got an extra coke? I'm out.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:42:24 PM EDT
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So how long until people start complaining about electric inequality.
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Electricity deserts!
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:43:17 PM EDT
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Here is a live cam on the ESB that is working:

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Looks like most of the affected area is off camera to the west side, though.

***EDIT***:  The camera view just shifted westward in two different views, which I've never seen before, so maybe it's been moved to view the blacked out area.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:43:22 PM EDT
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This shows 44,000 without power.

Seems like a nothingburger
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This shows 44,000 without power.

Seems like a nothingburger
44,000 buildings, not individuals.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:43:41 PM EDT
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Power outages hit parts of Manhattan sending subway stations, stores into darkness

Gen X/Y/Z/millennial? author

"A manhole fire caused extensive power outages across Manhattan’s west side early Saturday evening, plunging subway stations, Broadway theaters and department stores in the heart of the Big Apple into darkness on the 42nd anniversary — nearly to the hour–of the 1977 blackout..."

Wait. What?
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:43:47 PM EDT
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It's times like these that I'm glad I live on the outskirts of a very small town. Power goes out and I'm not worried about people trying to fucking rob me or potentially murder me.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:44:02 PM EDT
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I was in NY for the 2003 blackout. We were in town for a wedding, landed at JFK right as the power went off.

People were pretty well behaved, most treated it like a giant party.

Hotel we were staying in turned into a giant tailgate party, everybody hanging out in/around their cars drinking.

ETA: I wouldn't want to experience a days long outage there, I am sure things would have gotten sporty.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:44:51 PM EDT
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At least it's Manhattan any other borough and it would be chaos , looting and well I would be in fear.

Edit. I just read it's on the west side. That's the extremely affluent side.

Nothing to worry about there.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:45:19 PM EDT
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Wont last long enough to worry about with the ravaging bands of cannibals
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:45:37 PM EDT
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They should get their Disabled African-American Lesbian engineering team on it pronto.
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Ah, I had first dibs.  I’m only two out of three there.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:46:19 PM EDT
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I just heard they had to cancel Hamilton tonight!  This is awful!
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:47:13 PM EDT
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I love the media coverage...

“It’s pandemonium! Look at this video!”

*cuts to video of people milling around peacefully*

“As we said, people are in a panic!”

“Look! An ambulance!”

*show video of ambulance in no hurry*
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:48:59 PM EDT
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Fixed.  

But seriously, power goes out everywhere now and then.  It's not a big deal in the country unless it lasts a long time, but I guess the cities descend into chaos within hours.  
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There are a metric shit-tonne of household refrigerators in un-airconditioned apartment that are slowly warming up right now.

You know there are a million kids standing in front of open refrigerator doors right now trying to decide what they want out of there....
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:49:11 PM EDT
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Power outages hit parts of Manhattan sending subway stations, stores into darkness

"A manhole fire caused extensive power outages across Manhattan’s west side early Saturday evening, plunging subway stations, Broadway theaters and department stores in the heart of the Big Apple into darkness on the 42nd anniversary — nearly to the hour–of the 1977 blackout..."

Wait. What?
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You shot another manhole cover into orbit Mayor DiBlasio?
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:49:16 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:49:35 PM EDT
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Electricity deserts!
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The power privileged.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:50:06 PM EDT
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42 years to the DAY of the 1977 blackout!
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Bill Clinton was President number 42!!!

Coincidence?
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:50:35 PM EDT
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When the power goes out where I live it rarely...if ever... makes the local news
yet we gotta here about it for a 30 minute segment on national news whenever
power goes out in NYC or Commifornia.

I really don't care that much!
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:50:47 PM EDT
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A witness on the borough's Upper West Side reported hearing an explosion at about 7pm and the lights going out after that.

A New York City Fire Department spokesman said the cause of the outage, which has left 42,000 Con Edison customers without power, was being investigated. There are unconfirmed reports the cause is a transformer fire at 12th Ave. around W. 54th St.

'FDNY is operating at numerous stuck elevators throughout the West Side and subways,' the spokesman said.

The outage comes on the anniversary of the 1977 New York City outage that left most of the city without power.

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Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:51:13 PM EDT
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There are a metric shit-tonne of household refrigerators in un-airconditioned apartment that are slowly warming up right now.

You know there are a million kids standing in front of open refrigerator doors right now trying to decide what they want out of there....
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Fixed.  

But seriously, power goes out everywhere now and then.  It's not a big deal in the country unless it lasts a long time, but I guess the cities descend into chaos within hours.  
There are a metric shit-tonne of household refrigerators in un-airconditioned apartment that are slowly warming up right now.

You know there are a million kids standing in front of open refrigerator doors right now trying to decide what they want out of there....
And their mothers wondering why the light isn't on
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:51:31 PM EDT
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Pop pmags?? Oh wait... they cant have any...
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Only ten rounders
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:51:39 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:52:40 PM EDT
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James Burke Connections, Ep. 1 "The Trigger Effect"
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:54:16 PM EDT
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FEMA subways have been reported carrying citizens off...

Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:54:23 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:55:57 PM EDT
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Them city boys can call me a redneck all they want. My AC is working and I have a nice cool beverage and guns,,lots of guns.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:55:57 PM EDT
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That was a good show.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:56:44 PM EDT
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Anyone eating strangers they found in the NY subway system is gonna get what they deserve.
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Let's all hope people don't try to create chaos by spreading unfounded rumours of cannibalism on trapped subway cars...

Anyone eating strangers they found in the NY subway system is gonna get what they deserve.
So it's TRUE then!
Gotta Facebook.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:57:04 PM EDT
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That was a good show.
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That was a good show.
That episode starts out in NYC in a power failure
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:57:24 PM EDT
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... was working in Manhattan during the big Northeast blackout of 2003. Luckily, it was a Friday and we got off work "on time" for once. Made it all the way up (26 floors) to my room just as it blacked out. My rudimentary survivalist skills saved the day for a young woman and her two small kids. She was near panic with no food whatsoever - so I robbed the maids goody stash for stocking rooms with that option. She would have kissed me. Many of the folks that hosted me had to walk miles home that night, many camped out in the office

Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:57:40 PM EDT
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Shit has to be bad for someone in AZ to tell us that Manhattan has no power.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:58:12 PM EDT
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Pop P or No Pop? Let the ferals sort it out first, then Pop?
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:58:37 PM EDT
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"When the lights go out, poor people will steal."
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 8:59:52 PM EDT
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Them city boys can call me a redneck all they want. My AC is working and I have a nice cool beverage and guns,,lots of guns.
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Damn...beautiful place!
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 9:00:32 PM EDT
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FEMA subways have been reported carrying citizens off...

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Those are all parked in northern NJ at the BMW & Mercedes import auto loading facility.  Ingenious camouflage.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 9:01:13 PM EDT
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a young woman and her two small kids. She was near panic with no food whatsoever
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"Who is going to buy me food?"
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 9:01:19 PM EDT
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Oh shit. Are they checking their fridge magnets?
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I understood that reference. Well played.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 9:01:44 PM EDT
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... was working in Manhattan during the big Northeast blackout of 2003. Luckily, it was a Friday and we got off work "on time" for once. Made it all the way up (26 floors) to my room just as it blacked out. My rudimentary survivalist skills saved the day for a young woman and her two small kids. She was near panic with no food whatsoever - so I robbed the maids goody stash for stocking rooms with that option. She would have kissed me. Many of the folks that hosted me had to walk miles home that night, many camped out in the office

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Map_of_North_America%2C_blackout_2003.svg/800px-Map_of_North_America%2C_blackout_2003.svg.png
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We didn't lose it where I work, our power control people saw it coming and disconnected from the grid before it caused much issue.

Mi map is wrong.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 9:02:00 PM EDT
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In.....and curious.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 9:02:22 PM EDT
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Those are all parked in northern NJ at the BMW & Mercedes import auto loading facility.  Ingenious camouflage.
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FEMA subways have been reported carrying citizens off...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy3PuPwV7ms  
Those are all parked in northern NJ at the BMW & Mercedes import auto loading facility.  Ingenious camouflage.
Bavarians?  Totally trains to a camp
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 9:05:25 PM EDT
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I predict murder, rape, robbery, B&E and more rape.

For those that get their news from Fox let us all be thankful that this did happen when Shepard Smith aka Trump Hater was in the building.

News says the blackout is from a fire, but somehow the media will tell us that it Trumps fault.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 9:05:35 PM EDT
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Damn...beautiful place!
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Thank you! If you're a fisherman the lake is STUFFED with 2-12 lb black bass.
Link Posted: 7/13/2019 9:05:44 PM EDT
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Shit has to be bad for someone in AZ to tell us that Manhattan has no power.
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Maybe it will last long enough for canabalization of as many progressives as possible.

We are having monsoon storms here in AZ.  We have no problem when the power goes out, usually walk out and say high to the neighbors, see if anyone needs anything.  Then grilling for dinner or back inside for some fun card games with a our emergency/camping lanterns and candles.
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