“Never Sleeping City” has powered off for three hours
Usually, this is the most profitable night of Broadway in New York every week. July 13 is Saturday, in the evening, the most lively moment of the day is coming. The sun has traveled westward, and the night has not yet arrived, and the street lights are not on yet. Some people squeezed into the elevator and descended from a high-rise building. Some people walked through the darkness along the subway.
The Broadway League Theater had 30 performances that night, from “Hamilton” and “Evil” to “Kill a Mockingbird” and “Waitress”. Carnegie Hall will welcome the stage of Millennium Choir and Orchestra, Madison Square Garden at 20:30, and this night belongs to 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 Babaylan 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 made by the singer on purpose. 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” has a power outage in Manhattan. 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, including fans from France just to see Lopez, and girls 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 New York City like this, power outages are sometimes a horror story. Babaylan42A night with the same power outage made New York notorious.
Coincidentally, that day was also July 13. The power interruption that lasted for more than 24 hours put New York in a “darkest moment”. There were even robbery, arson and other acts on the streets, causing millions of dollars in losses, and 3,800 people were arrested. 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 outage, at least four 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.
The streets of Midtown Manhattan have lost colored neon lights, and the traffic lights are lost, red, yellow and green are gone, and traffic flow has become congested and chaotic. But soon, a young boy with flip-flops, or a blonde wearing a yellow vest, stood on the streets instead of the traffic policeman, directing the passing vehicles and pedestrians.
Unexpectedly, after the performances on the stage were interrupted, there were more performances on the street. The street in front of Carnegie Music Hall was surrounded by audiences, and people raised their phones to take a picture of 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 keep it in its best condition.”
Below people’s feet is Manhattan’s “dungeon” 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. Manhattan’s streetsThis scene did appear on his head. Three boys gathered on the street to light wax. BabaylanBabaylanBabaylanBabaylanBabaylanBabaylanBabaylanBake a hot dog. A lady walked downstairs with her beloved dog downstairs for a walk on the street. Although the bar was a little darker than usual, the guests who lighted candles and wore headlights were having a good time. People were wandering on the streets, only fire trucks whizzed past the corners when they were not Komiks.
There are rumors on the Internet that the power outage may be “the deception of the Russians” or that it is a terrifying Cinema organization is provoking trouble. Someone claimed to the media Komiks that he heard an explosion before the power outage. Twenty days after the power outage, former White House and Pentagon official Douglas McKinnon published an article titled “Will you survive the upcoming power outage?”, 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 the beacon of freedom in the world, but this beacon does not seem to be very bright.”
However, New York Mayor Bill De Blasio claimed that the power outage ruled out the possibility of terrorism or crimes involving Cinema. 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 7.Komiks30,000 users. Mann KomiksMidtown Hatton fell into a dark range, extending 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 found that the city sunset without Komiks lights are also beautiful. The twilight is round, looking down from the sky above New York, the power outage isApart from the lights and the diffuse night, there is only the red flowing like blood, which is emitted by the taillights of the car on the street. And as always, the bright lights of the Komiks were lit up for another night.
At 21:58, three hours after the power outage, the neon lights and densely packed building windows lit up. The call came, and the people walking on the streets were waving their arms and screaming, the driver celebrating with passers-by, 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 Komiks took to the streets to find the story of 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 this accident did not stop the happy moment of the two newlyweds. They light candles and swear in the darkness. For them, this power outage changed nothing.