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Detroit's Power Grid Is Down And People Are Stuck In Elevators
www.businessinsider.com ^ | 12-02-2014 | Pamela Engel

Posted on 12/02/2014 8:54:22 AM PST by Red Badger

Detroit — A widespread power outage Tuesday has caused evacuations of buildings throughout the downtown, including Joe Louis Arena, Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, the Detroit Institute of Arts and some buildings at Wayne State University. Most of Detroit's municipal power grid has gone down, cutting electricity to public buildings in the city, officials have said.

Police, fire, school, and jail buildings have lost power and traffic lights aren't working, a city spokesperson said.

Some people are trapped in elevators throughout Detroit, according to Detroit Fire Chief Jack Wiley, and fire crews are working to free them.

Affected buildings included Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State, and the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, which people evacuated by stairwells, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/power-outage-in-detroit-2014-12#ixzz3KlCvAAia

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; energy
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1 posted on 12/02/2014 8:54:22 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

If you want to know the future of America, study Argentina.


2 posted on 12/02/2014 8:55:09 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

Natural?
Accident?
Terrorists?
Looters?
All of the above?....................


3 posted on 12/02/2014 8:55:18 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: PGR88

Or, apparently, Detroit...


4 posted on 12/02/2014 8:55:50 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: PGR88

When you see the lights of NY City go out, you will know we have won............John Galt..................


5 posted on 12/02/2014 8:56:07 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

No justice no juice?


6 posted on 12/02/2014 8:56:50 AM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S./CDC=Contagion Distribution Center)
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To: Red Badger

But do they have water?


7 posted on 12/02/2014 8:57:15 AM PST by RWGinger
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A river runs through it................


8 posted on 12/02/2014 8:58:06 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

They did not pay their electric bill and are waiting for the Supreme Court to declare that electricity is a basic human right?


9 posted on 12/02/2014 8:58:16 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: Red Badger

Can this be turned into a Race card thing?


10 posted on 12/02/2014 8:58:33 AM PST by Netz
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To: Red Badger

Forgot to pay the bill?


11 posted on 12/02/2014 8:58:43 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Red Badger

Oops, Barry shut down too many power plants...

“We’ll get you out of the elevator as soon as the wind cranks up”


12 posted on 12/02/2014 8:58:58 AM PST by RW_Whacko
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To: Red Badger

Hackers...: )


13 posted on 12/02/2014 8:59:10 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Red Badger

Reminds me of the time I worked at the RenCen.

DeLoitte-Touche had an office across the hall and we would ride the elevators with the “steno-pool” chicks.
What a fine collection of nubile young women! I would attempt to “chat up” the girls during the lunch-ride to give both me and those girls a certain “fun and satisfaction”.

Good times!


14 posted on 12/02/2014 8:59:37 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Netz

Black Tuesday in Detroit.............EVERYTHING’S FREE!.......................


15 posted on 12/02/2014 8:59:47 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Detroit stairwells are extremely dangerous, and their elevators are unreliable. It’s almost not worth living in that socialist paradise any more.


16 posted on 12/02/2014 8:59:49 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Detroit is looking more and more like a backward third world cesspool.

The progress European Americans brought throughout the 19th and 20th Century is being destroyed in a few short years.

17 posted on 12/02/2014 8:59:59 AM PST by detective
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To: jsanders2001

Looters..............


18 posted on 12/02/2014 9:00:13 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Netz

Or a liberal thing...

How many are stuck in escalators?


19 posted on 12/02/2014 9:00:22 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: detective

All in one day...................


20 posted on 12/02/2014 9:01:02 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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