Power outage in Manhattan
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There are dozens of substations in Manhattan. Sucks for people on the trains or in midtown but hardly would call a small portion of the grid failing a "major power outage" or a blackout. I still have power in my building and so does everything in the area.
Fuck THAT. I WAS about to head to Midtown. Good news if it’s limited but if Midtown stations are the ones affected that will still cramp the style of trunk line riders trying to leave to Queens.
No, let the flyover jellies have their moment to gloat
do people post ignorant/veiled dog whistle racism stuff like this like its 1985 every time there's bad news about nyc?
This is what a REAL blackout was, I was there and lived there and there was not mass crime or chaos.
Because there are real historical events that relate to looting and the racial history of the city and it's not really funny to make a joke about such serious stuff to me.
The Twitter responses to the MTA post suggest stations and trains between 145 St and Penn Station are either out or are delayed with a focus on lines running the west side or middle of Manhattan (the Q, 8th Ave line, 7th Ave line, 6th Ave line).
I've said this since I was a kid and I'll say it till the day I die.
Fuck the summer.
Be safe out there, those in the city. At the very least the sun is still out while this is happening.
Fuck the summer.
Be safe out there, those in the city. At the very least the sun is still out while this is happening.
What was it 15 years ago that we had a black out that impacted the northeast for two days? It shut down an entire region
Damn that’s crazy! I’m only in the city during the week, so thankfully don’t have to deal with it. That giant black electronic billboard is only a few blocks from my office.
Would really suck getting stuck on a subway! Stay safe, NYC-era.
Would really suck getting stuck on a subway! Stay safe, NYC-era.
I happened to be in NYC during that east coast blackout.
Had to walk from wherever that big art museum is all the way up to the Bronx.
Had to walk from wherever that big art museum is all the way up to the Bronx.
While the comment was in bad taste, it was in reference to historical events. Your reaction was harsh, in my opinion.
7 People stuck in a subway car...and one...IS A SERIAL KILLER
Midtown, Coming in 2021
Joking aside there HAS to be some method of evacuating a downed subway train, right?
Settle down. Probably just an equipment failure at the substation.
A manhole fire apparently destroyed or damaged a transmission line in Manhattan causing this. That’s the local ABC report at least - this sounds like a mundane mechanical failure.
Probably one of the distribution lines from the transformer secondary in the upper manhattan or bronx substations. Or could be multiple transformers within one of those substations. Con Edison is n-2 contingency design, 2 combinations of equipment failure would still be fine for each substation. However in practise what happens is...the other equipment starts to overheat very quick, specifically during these kinds of heatwaves. They are lucky it's a weekend all the office buildings are empty. During a weekday this would have been a shitshow.
