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The Power has gone out in downtown Detroit.

Yes, indeed, in many more ways than one. In a certain way a metaphor for all that America is, will become.

This is one instance in which 'blackout' takes on many iterations.

1 posted on 09/11/2013 1:53:29 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: Travis McGee

ping.


2 posted on 09/11/2013 1:54:04 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: lbryce

I bet they couldn’t pay the bill so the power company turned it off.


3 posted on 09/11/2013 1:54:57 PM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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Yep Detroilet is America’s future.


4 posted on 09/11/2013 1:55:01 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Inbred, pedophile-worshipping, misogynists (mozlums) offend me.)
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To: lbryce

Is this a federal government drill?


5 posted on 09/11/2013 1:55:04 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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Uh oh. Devils Night may come early this year.


6 posted on 09/11/2013 1:55:07 PM PDT by Martin Tell (Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni.)
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Copper thieves??? Sniff for burning hair


8 posted on 09/11/2013 1:56:02 PM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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Better GTH out before sundown...


9 posted on 09/11/2013 1:56:11 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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Erie PA was powerless last night according to a friend.

Power down the grid and close plants as the administration is doing and all hot weather becomes lethal.


10 posted on 09/11/2013 1:58:04 PM PDT by Chickensoup (...We didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: lbryce

Atlas Shrugged.


11 posted on 09/11/2013 1:59:37 PM PDT by Bookwoman ("...and I am unanimous in this...")
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I’m surprised they noticed.


12 posted on 09/11/2013 2:00:13 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (Obamacare will be a success when "I" am exempted!)
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Who knew people still lived there.


13 posted on 09/11/2013 2:00:17 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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14 posted on 09/11/2013 2:00:18 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center has just issued Severe Thunderstorm Watch 522 warning of possible storms with high wind and hail for Southern Michigan including Detroit.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0522.html

15 posted on 09/11/2013 2:00:43 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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Surprise! And we thought they had no power for a couple decades! All’s well then.


16 posted on 09/11/2013 2:01:23 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: lbryce; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; GeronL

Caused by default, no doubt.

Default of George Bush.


19 posted on 09/11/2013 2:03:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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Detroit is the "Mosh-pit" of Liberal Ideology!
20 posted on 09/11/2013 2:04:32 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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Sounds like the start of a low budget horror flick. Maybe another zombie apocalypse, only this time for real.


21 posted on 09/11/2013 2:04:34 PM PDT by Perseverando (It's ALL about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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Is there anybody in downtown Detroit anymore? I thought it was abandoned...


22 posted on 09/11/2013 2:06:42 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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“Last one out, turn out the lights.”

Wow. Someone in Detroit can read.


24 posted on 09/11/2013 2:08:07 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Waiting for next tagline.)
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Øbama will save them !!!


26 posted on 09/11/2013 2:10:01 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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