“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, and in the evening, the most lively moment of the day is coming. The sun has traveled westward, the night has not yet arrived, and the street lights have not yet lit up. Some people were squeezing down from a tall building in the electric ladder, and some people followed the subway into the darkness.
The Broadway League Theater had 30 performances that night, from “Hamilton” and “Evil” to “Kill a Mockingbird” and “Waitress Cinema“. Carnegie Hall will welcome the Millennium Choir and Orchestra, the Babaylan stage at Madison Square Garden, at 20:30, and this night belongs to singer Jennifer Lopez.
When Lopez’s singing Komiks was about 25,000 viewers were crowded with the stage. After the prelude sounded, the lights and sounds 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, 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 a super city like New York, power outages are sometimes a horror story. A night with the same power outage 42 years ago made New York notorious.
Coincidentally, that day was also KomiksJuly 13. The power interruption that lasted for more than 24 hours put New York in the “darkest moment”, and even robbery, arson, etc. appeared on the streets.The behavior caused millions of dollars in losses, and 3,800 people were arrested. This day is also known as “BabaylanNew York Power Blackout Anniversary”.
This timeBabaylan, the power outage also made people feel frightened, including the audience of the concert. They are worried about chaos, trampling, 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 at this moment.
The streets of Midtown Manhattan have lost colored neon lights, traffic lights have lost color, red, yellow, and green are gone, 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 traffic police, directing Komiks 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 maintain its best condition.”
Below people’s feet is the “dungeon” of Manhattan swallowed by black. The subway had to be stopped. The Komiks was left with only the dim light in the car. You had to turn on the flashlight to find the stairs and CinemaKomiks. The person who walked out of the subway station held a flashlight to stop the passengers who were about to take the subway.
”Now, everyone can put down their iPhone, go out, be with nature and each other. This should happen frequently.” Someone suggested on the Internet. The streets of Manhattan are indeedThis scene occurred. Three boys gathered on the street to light candles and roast hot dogs. A lady walked downstairs with her beloved dogs and walked downstairs on the street. Although the bar was a little darker than usual, the guests who lit candles and put headlights were having a good time drinking. People were wandering on the streets, only fire trucks 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. Twenty days after the 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.
Cinema 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 very bright.”
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 that the power outage began to explode and fire at the substation in the district, causing other substations to malfunction. 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. Twilight is gathering, looking down from the sky above New York, the power-out Midtown Manhattan has only blood-flowing red, which is emitted by the taillights of the car on the street. Cinema And as always, the bright lights lit up another night.
At 21:58, three hours after the power outage, the neon lights and dense lights in Midtown Manhattan were densely packedCinema City regained the light from the ground and underground.
New York journalists did not forget to take to the streets to find the story of the power outage. A reporter from New York Times 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 moment of the two newlyweds. They lit candles and swear in the dark. For them, this time, the power outage changed nothing.