Posted on 09/11/2013 11:51:59 AM PDT by Kartographer
Some of Detroit’s municipal buildings as well as downtown traffic lights and the People Mover are without power. Parts of the Wayne State University campus in midtown also have no electricity.
Power went out just after 1:00 p.m.
City crews and DTE Energy are working to fix two main electrical lines to the city grid, according to Bill Nowling, a spokesman for emergency manager Keyn Orr. Nowling tells 7 Action News the outage was done as a precautionary measure.
Buildings without power include the Coleman A. Young Municpal Center, Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, the McNamara Federal Building, parts of Wayne State University, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit People Mover and the main branch of the Detroit Public Library.
The City of Detroit Public Lighting Department provides electrical power to these sites. DTE Energy tells 7 Action News they are assisting in the effort to bring electrical service back online.
DTE says a cable failure occurred at 12:45 p.m.
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Sounds like an outage at 12:45 and an deliberate further shutdown during repairs.
Just a little irritated with the oh so predictable ignorance of our fellow FReepers.
What’s the temp. in Detroit this afternoon? 90-95
Let the feral aminals play...
People’s wallets for one.
WDIV says currently it’s 90 degrees, 52% humidity and a Dewpoint of 70
Did anyone even notice?
“Paging John Galt...”
“Mr. Galt, please pickup the red courtesy phone”...
Zimbabwe? Veenzuela? Detroit?
All so similar
“Detroit, Venezuela (or Zimbabwe)”
Yup. I figure it’s only a matter of a few years until there are guys selling gas out of milk jugs, street corner dentists, and mobs of 10 year old rag pickers.
lol
(Ducking!)
Paging Darryl Dixon...Paging Darryl Dixon..You’re wanted on the courtesy phone.
Detroit - where even the power plants refuse to do any work.
Copper theft.
I don’t see that big of a difference aside from the NL risks injuring a pitcher to put a mediocre batter in the line up.
Protecting pansy pitchers from having to take what they dish out at 90-100 MPH ruined the game. I somehow doubt Clemens would have become famous for hitting batters if he had to stand by the plate a couple of times per game.
You *do* realize I’m just messing with you, right?
I hear ya.
Yeah. It ain’t no thang.
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