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Hope anyone here in NYC tonight is safe (Original Post)
Trumpocalypse
Jul 2019
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dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)1. Do they know what caused the blackout?
dhol82
(9,650 posts)3. Transformer fire on the west side.
Something exploded under a manhole. No explanation as to what triggered it.
dewsgirl
(14,964 posts)4. Thank you. It's got to be hella scary with it covering so much of an area, that is usually
quite bright.
dhol82
(9,650 posts)2. Really not a major problem. Just a power outage in a small area of Manhattan.
Only bit of devastation was the Broadway shows that were canceled. Imagine you got tix to Hamilton a year ago and tonight the lights went out. Oy!
Lochloosa
(16,735 posts)5. It's a transformer fire. It happens.
malaise
(296,124 posts)6. The most scary part to me
is that it's 42 years to the day since the 1977 NY power outage