Posted on 07/14/2019 11:51:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In a statement released late Sunday morning, the power company said it “will be conducting a diligent and vigorous investigation to determine the root cause of the incident.”
Con Ed spokesman Alfonso Quiroz blamed the blackout on a “disruption on the transmission side” of the company’s power grid.
Officials initially suspected a manhole fire that affected an underground transformer, but Quiroz said there’s “no evidence of a fire at this point.”
The blackout stranded people on subway trains and elevators, and forced the evacuation of Madison Square Garden and cancellation of Broadway shows.
It struck on the 42nd anniversary of a massive power outage in 1977 that affected the entire city and sparked looting, robberies and other mayhem.
Saturday night’s incident also occurred while Mayor Bill de Blasio was campaigning in Waterloo, Iowa, as part of his long-shot presidential bid.
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Someone trying to strip copper wire out and got fried?
Weird. If they don’t know what caused it haha w did they know how to fix it? Or did it just fix itself lol
Old infrastructure, no give f*cks by politicians, workers who only care about pensions, insane green regulations...
Cause? Caused by the deep state to stop the illegal immigrant invader collection action - and it did.
“If they don’t know what caused it h0w did they know how to fix it?”
Excellent question!
Really strange.
Sometimes outages happen. I’m sure we have all experienced them.
But it seems odd that Con Edison is officially saying they don’t know what caused it.
I suspect “they” know, but don’t want to admit it.
Either failure to maintain the infrastructure (probable) or an outside actor (possible). Either way, ComEd is not going to say what happened.
Probably Putin and Trump
They know. Just aren’t saying. Hacked?
Maybe China doing a test run on the grid?
Shazzayum!! It’s a miracle!! :)
“New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says the nearly 5-hour blackout in Manhattan on Saturday was “not a cyber attack” or a “physical act of terrorism.”July 14, 2019 …”
MSNBC · 13m
Of course, he wasn’t even there.
Power restored after NYC transformer fire causes blackout in part of Manhattan, officials say
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-power-outage-manhattan
Illegals putting up their own wires(like you see in the Middle East) and draining the system dry ,LOl
Not to sound paranoid but the timing of 42 years to the day seems little odd
NBD!
Whoever turns out to be at fault will get a bonus, a 15% pay raise, and their “long” workweek will be reduced from a back-breaking 28-hours to 20-hours...
Cover to destroy evidence in the Epstein case.
Why not?
Iran sending a message after our slap at their computer systems a couple of weeks ago.
It was well timed, well targeted, minimal—but highly visible, and controlled and contained.
This was likely not a mistake or accident.
How do we know it was a message if it wasn’t ‘signed’?
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