No it hasn't.
Posted on 09/11/2013 1:53:29 PM PDT by lbryce
Downtown Detroit was hit by a power outage at around 1 p.m. today.
Multiple buildings appear to have lost power including city hall, Detroit News is reporting. CBS Detroit reports that the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice and the People Mover in downtown Detroit have also lost power, while Local 4 News reports that some Wayne State University buildings lost power and there were reports of people stuck in elevators.
We recently reported how the city was racing against the end of Daylight Savings Time to restore reliable service to thousands of street lights.
The city's office of emergency management says they had to shut off parts of the grid to address two main power lines that surged out as a result of heat overloads, the WXYZ's Alicia Smith reports.
The area is powered by the City of Detroit Public Lighting Department, ABC 7 reports. DTE Energy says that a cable failure occurred at 12:45 pm.
Local 4 News has this footage of the scene inside the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, where the former mistress of Bob Basharahad just taken the stand in a preliminary hearing in his first degree murder case.
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Sounds like the start of a low budget horror flick. Maybe another zombie apocalypse, only this time for real.
Is there anybody in downtown Detroit anymore? I thought it was abandoned...
detroit, Zimbabwe, Venezuela... what’s the difference?
“Last one out, turn out the lights.”
Wow. Someone in Detroit can read.
Ashtabula (about 50 miles west of Erie PA) was also having major power outages yesterday.
Øbama will save them !!!
Do they have candles?
Do they know how to use candles?
Spelling.
Mogadishu, U.S.A.
You can only ignore those “PAST DUE” notices so long.
How can they tell the difference?
The power has gone out in Detroit.
Would anyone notice?
New Remake Movie: ESCAPE FROM DETROIT
No it hasn't.
Detroit? The second half of “Atlas Shrugged”...only west of NYC.
detroit, Zimbabwe, Venezuela... what’s the difference?
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Just a guess but I’d say Venezuela has cheap gas, food on at least 3 days a week and hot women?
“Sure seems like some type of drill or test. FEMA might want to see exactly what happens when the EBT cards go down.”
Actually, I read that the one remaining food store in Detroit shut down. Between the theft problem and the taxes, they just decided it wasn’t possible to stay in business. According to the article Detroit was trying to get a store to move in by offering incentives, but at that time there were no takers.
LOL
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