“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 the tall building, while others 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 was in its fourth song, the stage was filled with about 25,000 audiences. CinemaAfter the prelude rang, the lights and 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 by the singer who deliberately made it. In the darkness, people turned on their phones and began to shout the singer’s nicknames frantically and neatly, but the lights were still not lit 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 of Cinema 42 years ago made New York notorious.
Coincidentally, that day was 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 Babaylancinema millions of dollars in losses, and 3,800 people were arrested for it. 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 are worried about chaos, stampedeBabaylan, and even more terrible things. Affected by the power outage, at least 4 subway stations were paralyzed and more than 400 elevators were interrupted. People rarely saw the loss of light in Manhattan, but it was surrounded by black.
The streets of Midtown Manhattan have lost colored neon lights, 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 Komiks‘s 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 Hall was surrounded by audiences. People raised their phones and took a photo of an impromptu street show in the afterglow of the sunset.
Someone left a message under the performance video uploaded to the Internet: “BabaylanWhen everything is screwed upCinema, New York will always maintain its best condition.”
Under 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 iPhones, go out and be with each other. This should happen often.” Someone suggested on the Internet. This kind of thing does appear on the streets of Manhattan.iks curtain, three boys gathered on the street to light candles and roast hot dogs. A lady walked downstairs with her beloved dog in her arms. Although the bar was a little darker than usual, the guests who lit the candles and put on the headlights were drinking happily. People were wandering on the streets, only fire trucks whizzed past the corners from time to time.
There are rumors on the Internet that the power outage Babaylan may be “the devil 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 power outage, former White House and Pentagon official Komiks, author 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 became the “pre-examination emperor”. The day before yesterday he also said: “The United States claims to be a lighthouse for the world’s freedom, but this lighthouse 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 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. The city of Komiks is trapped in a dark area, 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 sunset in Cinema without lights is also beautiful. Twilight is in full swing, looking down from the sky above New York, the power-breaking Midtown Manhattan KomiksApart from the lights and the diffuse night, there is only blood-flowing red, which is the Cinema sent out from the taillights of the car on the street. And as always, the bright lights lit up another night.
At 21:58, three hours after the power outage, the neon lights and densely packed building windows in Midtown Manhattan lit up. The call came, and the people walking on the streets were waving their arms and screaming. The driver slapped the passers-by and celebrated with high-fives. The cheers were 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 from 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.