Posted on 12/15/2023 5:25:16 AM PST by Libloather
The New York City Fire Department was forced to save people from elevators across the city and commuters were trapped on the subway after a fault at a Con Edison plant in Brooklyn caused power outages.
Black smoke was seen coming from the power facility in Brooklyn at 11.55pm on Thursday night and a momentary power outage followed with lights flickering for a few seconds.
It plunged the city into chaos temporarily with multiple reports of people trapped in elevators and stuck on the subway for up to 20 minutes. Some motorists also reported blinking traffic lights.
Alarming footage showed a security guard at a Wegmans store in Brooklyn being rescued from an elevator by firefighters. At Grand Central station all elevators and escalators were out of service due to the power issue.
Con Edison said the issue was due to a fault on a power line at its facility on John Street in Dumbo. Most electricity is back up and running.
Lights were reported flickering in neighborhoods including Lower Manhattan, the Upper East Side, Bed-Stuy, Downtown Brooklyn and Long Island City.
The New York City Fire Department was quickly at the scene and sirens were seen flashing from the Con Edison plant after the failure. New York City Police Department officers were also spotted outside the gates of the facility.
Con Edison told DailyMail.com its crews are investigating the power failure. 'A fault on a high-tension transmission line occurred at a Con Edison substation in Brooklyn at approximately 11:55 pm last night,' a spokesman said.
'Customers may have experienced a dip or surge in power at that time. Crews are investigating and working to make necessary repairs.'
Residents across New York City complained about the brief power cut with most left confused about the outage.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This is actually good practice for when the Democrats finally manage to destroy the electric grid.
Was there time enough for another baby-boom?
The lights were out for just over 2 minutes. So, yeah ...
;-)
Video
Small explosion at the ConEd plant in Brooklyn, sending a small fireball and smoke into the air, and causing a momentary NYC power outage
https://rumble.com/v41csiv-small-explosion-at-the-coned-plant-in-brooklyn-causing-a-momentary-nyc-powe.html
Assume terrorism until otherwise confirmed.
Intermittent nothingness exaggerated beyond infinity by a writer needing to earn his daily bread
Hamas, China or Iran?
“He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
My money is on IBEW.
Ping!.....................
A colleague showed up late to a meeting last week. Someone said she got stuck in an elevator and had to be pulled out of the roof hatch.
She didn’t even mention it when she showed up and I forgot to ask.
Stick in subway for 20 minutes ?
In other words another normal day.
This time it was out a couple of minutes. The next time a few minutes more, etc.
Reality in the cities is now the setting for some dystopian novel.
Is it time to start naming East Coast power outages, like the Weather Channel names snowstorms? We can call this one Sandy, after AOC.
He said they were mandated to add about 5% sawdust when Hitler first came to power, with gradual increases until it was 50-50 by the time France fell at Germany was "winning" the war.
He had no idea what the mix was at the end.
Get ready for real outages compliments of the One World Government answer to “climate something or other”, instituted by King Obama,Biden,Soros, G. Turdburger, et al.
Where was AOC during this emergency?
That is one heck of a fast response time if FDNY was rescuing people from elevators during a 2 minute blackout.
EC
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