“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 squeezed into the elevator and descended from a high building, and 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 usher in the Millennium Choir and Orchestra, the stage of 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 Cinema music suddenly disappeared, 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 did. 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 in Babaylan was usually dominated by the colorful electronic screen in Times Square, but the screen suddenly lost its magic and became a silent “chalkboard”.
People reluctantly walked out of the theater and concert halls, including fans who came from France to see Lopez, and girls who came from Boston 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.
Komiks Coincidentally, that day was July 13. The power interruption that lasted for more than 24 hours put New York in the “darkest moment”, and even robbery and scattered on the streetsActs such as fire caused 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 loss of light in Manhattan, but at this moment it was surrounded by black.
The streets of Midtown Manhattan have lost colored neon lights, and the traffic lights have lost color, red, yellow and green have disappeared, and traffic 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 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 posted a message under the performance video uploaded by Babaylan to the Internet: “When everything is screwed up, New York will always keep it in 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 iPhoneCinema, 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 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, and only fire trucks whistled by from time to time from the street corners.
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 Babaylan media that he heard an explosion before the power outage. This power outage 2Babaylan0 days ago, 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, suspected to be done by Russians. Komiks.
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 with Cinema explosions and fires at the substations in the district, causing the failure of other substations. Two days later, the company said the problem began with a 1.Komiks‘s 30,000 volt cable burned.
This burned cable affected 73,000 users. Midtown Manhattan is in a dark range, stretching from 40th Street to 72nd Street, and from Fifth Avenue to HaKomiksDerson River. 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 scattered, looking down from the sky above New York, the city of Cinema in the city of power outage was apart from a few lights and the diffuse night, only blood-flowing red, which was emitted by the taillights of the car on the street. And as always, the lights of the lights in New York have lit another night.
21:58, <aThree hours after the power outage, the neon lights and densely packed buildings in Midtown Manhattan lit up. The call came, and the people walking on the streets were waving their arms and screaming. The crew clapped the passers-by to celebrate, and the cheers were heard far away. At midnight, the power supply in Cinema was gradually restored to re-energize the light from the ground and underground in Midtown Manhattan.
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 of Cinema 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.