“Never Sleeping City” has powered off for three hours
Usually, this is the most profitable night of Broadway in New York every week. July 13th is Saturday, and in the evening, the most lively moment of the day is about to come. The sun has traveled westward, the night has not yet arrived, and the street lights have not yet lit up. Some people squeezed into the elevator and descended from high-rise buildings, while others walked through the darkness along the subway.
The Broadway League Theater had 30 performances that night, KomiksFrom “Hamilton” and “Evil” to “Kill a Mockingbird”. Carnegie Hall will welcome the Millennium Choir and Orchestra at 20:30, and the stage of the Sun Square Garden, is part of singer Jennifer Lopez.
When Lopez’s concert reached its fourth song, about 25,000 audiences were crowded with the stage. After the prelude rang, the lights and music suddenly disappeared, and only the drum beats continued. A voice came from the stands in the dark: “Why are you kidding?” Some people also speculated that this might be a dramatic scene that the singer deliberately made. In the darkness, people turned on their phones and began to shout the singer’s nicknames frantically and neatly, but the lights still failed to light up again.
The “City Never Sleeps” in Manhattan has a power outage. At 18:47 New York time, the night regained its ownership of the land. The night here is usually dominated by the colorful electronic screen in Times Square, but the screen suddenly loses its magic and becomes a silent “chalkboard”.
People reluctantly walked out of the theater and concert halls, among which Cinema fans who came from France only to see Lopez, and girls who came from Boston just to enjoy The Waitress. Performances in multiple theaters have been cancelled, including 26 Broadway repertoire. This time, Broadway suffered a huge loss.
For a super city like New York, power outages are sometimes a horror story. 42 years agoA night with the same power outage made New York stinky.
Coincidentally, that day was also July 13. The power interruption that lasted for more than 24 hours put New York in a “darkest moment”. Even robbery, arson and other acts occurred on the streets, causing millions of dollars in losses, and 3,800 people were arrested by Cinema. This day is also known as the “New York Power Blackout Anniversary”.
This time, the power outage also made people feel frightened, including the audience of the concert. They worry about chaos, stampedeship, and even more terrible things. Affected by the power interruption, at least 4 subway stations were paralyzed and more than 400 elevators were interrupted. People rarely saw the lost side of Manhattan, but it was surrounded by black at this moment.
There are no colorful neon lights on the streets of Midtown Manhattan, the traffic lights are lost, the red, yellow and green are gone, and the traffic flow becomes congested and chaotic. But soon, a young boy with flip-flops, or a blonde wearing a yellow vest, stood on the streets instead of traffic police, directing the passing vehicles and pedestrians.
Unexpectedly, after the performance on the stage was interrupted, there were more performances on the street. The street in front of Carnegie Concert Hall was surrounded by audiences, and people raised their phones to take an impromptu street show in the afterglow of the sunset.
Someone left a message under a performance video uploaded to the Internet: “When everything is screwed up, New York will always maintain its best condition.”
Below people’s feet is the “dungeon” of Manhattan swallowed by black. The subway had to be stopped, leaving only the dim light in the carriage. You had to turn on the flashlight to find the stairs and exits. The people walking out of the subway station held the flashlight and stopped the passengers who were about to take the subway.
”Now, everyone can put down their iPhone, go out and be with nature and each other. This should happen often.” Someone suggested on the Internet. This scene did happen on the streets of Manhattan. Three boys gathered on the street to light candles and roast hot dogs. A lady walked downstairs with her beloved dog for a walk on the street. Komiks barAlthough it was a little darker than usual, the guests who lit candles and put the Babaylan headlights were very pleasant to drink. People were wandering on the streets, only fire trucks were whizzing past the corners from time to time.
There are rumors on the Internet that the power outage may be “the deception of the Russians” or that the terrorist organizations are provoking trouble. Someone claimed to the media that they heard the explosion before the power outage. Before the blackout of 2Komiks0 days before Cinema, former White House and Pentagon official Douglas McKinnon published an article titled “Will you survive the upcoming blackout?”, which mentioned a statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Just last year, hackers entered several U.S. utility control rooms, who suspected that it was done by the Russians.
Chinese netizens on the other side of the earth joked that the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson had become the “Personal Emperor”. The day before yesterday he also said at a regular press conference: “The United States claims to be a beacon of freedom in the world, but this beacon does not seem to be lighted up.”
However, New York Mayor Bill De Blasio claimed that the power outage ruled out the possibility of terrorism or criminal activities. Edison United, New York, which is responsible for power supply services in the New York area, initially said the power outage began with explosions and fires in the substations in the district, causing failures in other substations. Two days later, the company said the problem began with a 13,000-volt cable burned.
This burned cable affected 73,000 users. Midtown Manhattan is trapped in a dark range that stretches from 40th Street to 72nd Street, and from Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River from east to west. The authorities announced that no news of casualties has been received.
People find that the city without lights is also beautiful. As the dusk was gathering, looking down from the sky above New York, the power outage of Midtown Manhattan was left with only a few lights and the diffuse night, which was left with blood-like red, which was emitted by the taillights of the car on the street. New YorkAs always, the lights of Babaylan are lit up another Komiks night.
At 21:58, three hours after the power outage, the neon lights and densely packed building windows in Manhattan City lit up. The call came, and the people walking on the streets screamed with their arms waving, and the driver and passers-by were celebrating each other, and the cheers were heard far away. At midnight, power supply was gradually restored in the areas of power outage, and Midtown Manhattan regained the light on the ground and underground.
Even if it was only 3 hours, New York journalists did not forget to take to the streets to find stories about the power outage. A New York Times reporter met a couple holding a wedding on the street. The wedding was originally held in the hotel lobby and the lights suddenly went out, but the accident did not stop the happy moments of the two newcomers. They light candles and swear in the darkness. For them, this power outage changed nothing.