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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or a dead squirrel on a power line.....................
True, I woke up to his tripe the morning of the Ferguson Grand Jury announcement. I wanted to reach through the television and strangle him.
Downtown Detroit doesn’t get all the power from one place. You can have 3 buildings in a row without power, then 2 with power followed by another without. The same set of buildings lost power last summer due to a substation fire. This one is the municipal power service.
Comerica park, Ford Field buy their power from DTE and have their own substations.
Prepper Ping
When he comes on the tv goes off...................
Target of opportunity..................
Years ago, I was in an Elevator at CPAC with Tom Delay and four Virgin Atlantic Flight Attendants.
The only person I chatted up was Tom Delay. LOL
“ancient infrastructure?”
That is what I was thinking. Known as deferred maintenance.
I like the one above that we have to wait for the wind to pick up speed again. Hahahahaha
Amazing.
I dont wish anyone the loss of electric power...with the possible exception of the Whitehouse...and a couple of other prime locations.
Tell Sharpton to get his dumb little Obamahole up there to fix it.
“..How many are stuck in escalators?...”
Liberals, politicians, and Obamafone owners.
Nicely done RB
Argentina. Bosnia. This sort of thing will come to the USA soon. The entire country will soon look like Detroit if people like the Clintons have their way
I was wondering if anyone would get it...............
While the good working people in Detroit are trapped in elevators or at work, it’s Jungle fever time for the any of the natives who loot and rob at leisure.
Let’s see what the wind reaps. It may make Ferguson look like a picnic or it may reflect the opposite. Anyway, hope someone has CCW at hand when police are minutes or fortnights away.
Good luck, Detroit. America’s watching and taking notes.
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