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Financial District Goes Dark As Con Ed Cuts Power To Lower Manhattan

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/29/2012 19:05 -0400

As we warned earlier - due to the flooding from the storm surge - ConEd has cut power to parts of lower Manhattan:

*CON EDISON CUT POWER TO PARTS OF LOWER MANHATTAN, SPOKESMAN SAY
*CON EDISON CUT POWER EAST OF BROADWAY, SOUTH OF WALL ST TO TIP
*POWER CUT BETWEEN WALL, FRANKFORT, WILLIAMS & EAST RIVER :ED US
*CON EDISON CUT POWER TO PROTECT LINES FROM HURRICANE FLOODING

'Dark Pools' comes to mind as the financial district is blacked out.

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Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:09 | 2929360 nmewn

Nows the time...lower Manhattan is the place.

Hurricane Party!!!

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:15 | 2929383 icanhasbailout

Time for the Heist of the Century

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:58 | 2929547 Zap Powerz

Would it beat this heist?

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-ship-700-tons-gold-ore-missing-120438836--finance.html

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 21:28 | 2929885 icanhasbailout

Depends on how quick you can get a van downtown

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 22:03 | 2929993 jonjon831983

Wow, neat - I saw the headline and never got around to reading that one.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:17 | 2929394 reading

The rats are all in...

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:21 | 2929408 WestVillageIdiot

Let's all meet at Fraunces Tavern for free beer. Do those taps work without electricity?

After we get real hammered we will wander over to Delmonico's to eat a few nice steaks, before they go bad.

After we have finished engorging ourselves with beef we can go over and take a dump on Jamie's desk and in Lloyd's file cabinet.

I hope those guys can at least get a good reach-around from Mr. Hope and Change / Mr. Forward to make them feel better.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:24 | 2929426 nmewn

You're reading my mind ;-)

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:34 | 2929471 malikai

If it's ok with you guys I'd like to stop at Kevin's office and see if he's doing alright. Maybe we can check out the basement while we're there.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:09 | 2929361 Alpo for Granny

Well, that's a start. Now how about some mass arrests..

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:18 | 2929395 Mactheknife

LMAO...it seems that what the Government has refused to do and what Occupy couldn't do....good ole Mother Nature can and has taken the wrath of a hundred million American investors and is about to wipe out those alogo servers...Karma

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:26 | 2929435 WestVillageIdiot

Put an OWS t-shirt on and start walking towards The Exchange. Some NYPD thug will show you that they are still on the job.

Just think the overtime the NYPD is getting. Plus there are billions to be looted by the unions when this is all done.

9/11 - The city rapes the country

"Financial Crisis" - The city rapes the country

Hurricane Sandy - I think there is a pattern forming here

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:10 | 2929363 ReallySparky

Just day dreaming here, wouldn't it be wonderful if those co-located servers (HFT) couldn't get back on line for weeks, but the market restarted?

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:21 | 2929410 Jason T

I can see Blankfein, Dimon and the rest of them yelling "Turn those machines back on! Turn those machines back onnnnnnn!!!"

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:30 | 2929448 The Shootist

What's that from?

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:33 | 2929469 Jason T

Trading Places .. 1983 movie

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:10 | 2929366 MsCreant

They should'a cut the power a long time ago.

Who run Barter Town?

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:30 | 2929446 WestVillageIdiot

Bloomberg run Barter Town. He is so worried about the hurricane that he has banned caffeine in coffee shops, ginger beer in Indian restaurants and mozzarella cheese on pizza.

It's for their own good. Their Righteous Father is looking out for them.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:10 | 2929367 realtick

Dank pools

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 21:52 | 2929954 trx

...deep...

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:11 | 2929369 Lost Wages

What is Jamie Dimon doing right now? Post your guesses below:

Jamie Dimon is sitting in a recliner in the candlelight, squirting some Easy Cheese on a Triscuit.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:18 | 2929398 Mae Kadoodie

Jamie is getting his stretch marks loofahed.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:22 | 2929416 MsCreant

Vaporizing someone's capital, under the cover of the mist of the storm.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:28 | 2929439 fuu

Eating a puppy.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:31 | 2929456 Dr. Engali

Blowing lord Rothschild while the lower minions loot the gold.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:32 | 2929459 WestVillageIdiot

Jerking off to a photo spread of Angela Merkel.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 22:11 | 2930016 Tijuana Donkey Show

I voted down for that, just because you made me think of that. BLLLLLLEEEECCCHH!

Tue, 10/30/2012 - 09:07 | 2930976 Lost Wages

Dude, your name is "Tijuana Donkey Show." But I guess even a donkey is preferable to an "unfuckable lardass" like Merkel, right Berlusconi?

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 20:53 | 2929760 SilverRhino

Snorting coke, drinking patron while getting blown by an asian/latina house servant and being fucked in the a$$ by some unknown buggering Rothschild.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:11 | 2929371 The Gooch

let's keep it that way.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:11 | 2929372 SILVERGEDDON

Zombies starting to roam, looking for Wonder Bread, Red Bull, and Cheez Whizz.. Danger, Will Robinson, Danger !!

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:33 | 2929470 WestVillageIdiot

Jager bombs and bologna sandwiches for everybody, bitchez.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 22:18 | 2930036 Rattling Bones

Skittles and Iced Tea.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:16 | 2929373 walcott

Snake Plissken: What's that?
Pipeline: Tsu-nami, Snake! Tsunami!

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:14 | 2929378 Ineverslice

Uhh, the Bots are not gonna like that.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:15 | 2929381 Catullus

Given that most of the money is digital anyway, that's a massive deflation.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:15 | 2929382 walcott

Brain: I swear to God, Snake, I thought you were dead.
Snake Plissken: Yeah. You and everybody else.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:26 | 2929433 chump666

"Snake Plissken: I don't give a fuck about your war... or your president."

I love it!

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:18 | 2929396 walcott

Escape from New Jersey (2012)

Donna Kinski: So what are you doing in Jersey, Snake?
Snake Plissken: Looks like I'm walking, because the bar I was getting drunk at kicked me out.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:34 | 2929474 WestVillageIdiot

Long live The Iron Monkey.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:20 | 2929406 eddiebe

Never let a good crisis go to waste!

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:21 | 2929409 walcott

Malloy: The United States is a non-smoking nation! No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no women - unless you're married - no foul language, no red meat!
Snake Plissken: [sarcastic] Land of the free.

Snake Plissken: Your rules are really beginning to annoy me.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:21 | 2929414 booboo

His name was Snake Plissken..His name was Snake Plissken..His name was Snake Plissken..His name was Snake Pliss..wait a minute, right church, wrong pew.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:22 | 2929418 walcott

President: What's it going to be, Plissken? Them or us?
Snake Plissken: I shut down the third world, you win they lose. I shut down America, they win, you lose. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:23 | 2929419 walcott

Quotes for
Snake Plissken (Character)
from Escape from New York (1981)

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0009034/quotes

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:24 | 2929424 Dr. Engali

For God's sake don't turn them back on!

Mon, 10/29/2012 - 19:53 | 2929526 knukles