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Images From A Dark Detroit: "Major Cable Failure" Sparks Widespread Power Outage
Just 15 months after Detroit's Black Out 2013 debacle, spokespeople for the city and DTE Energy confirmed at around 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday that most of Detroit’s municipal grid is offline:
- *DETROIT CITES 'MAJOR CABLE FAILURE' FOR POWER OUTAGE
- *DETROIT: OUTAGE IS AFFECTING ALL CUSTOMERS ON THE PLD GRID
The outage is preventing power from being delivered to police stations, schools, traffic lights and other city-run facilities and services.
According to Detroit Press Office shortly before noon:
"The city's public lighting grid suffered a major cable failure that has caused the entire grid to lose power at approximately 10:30 this morning. The outage is affecting all customers on the PLD grid. We have isolated the issue and are working to restore power as soon as possible."
As RT reports,
“It looks like the entire Detroit Public Lighting system is down. Affecting about 100 buildings, places like The Joe, Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, fire stations, schools.
We were notified about 10:30 a.m. We’re working with them to help resolve the situation. We’ll help investigate the problem and make repairs. It’s too early yet to determine what has caused the shutdown,” Scott Simons of DTE Energy Co. told the Detroit News.
Evacuations have begun across the city:
Evacuations happening throughout downtown due to a massive power outage #Detroit #Local4 pic.twitter.com/xCNbefgCXf
— Jamal Bransford (@VideoManJamal) December 2, 2014
This is what evacuating 900 student visitors looks like! #DetroitPowerOutage pic.twitter.com/tCjhh7FV8c
— Detroit Inst of Arts (@DIADetroit) December 2, 2014
#detroitpoweroutage Send us your photos with #fox2det and see the ones we have here: http://t.co/kTVHozntz9 pic.twitter.com/YHUvKLpYa4
— FOX 2 News | WJBK (@FOX2News) December 2, 2014
Photo Gallery: Power outage cripples #Detroit
http://t.co/f25EWBL745 pic.twitter.com/Dep9yJ2ITr
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) December 2, 2014
Detroit hit by huge power outage http://t.co/SjLsWzp3ir via @WKYC pic.twitter.com/fHrqSiP8RD
— WKYC Channel 3 News (@wkyc) December 2, 2014
City Hall scene ... pic.twitter.com/1yjbYf5sVY
— ChristineFerretti_DN (@cferretti_dn) December 2, 2014
All lights out at Woodward and Jefferson. Traffic is backing up. pic.twitter.com/2RkcfrWnDV
— ChristineFerretti_DN (@cferretti_dn) December 2, 2014
People are streaming out of Coleman A. Young Building. Power is out. pic.twitter.com/Q2xYwLcybN
— ChristineFerretti_DN (@cferretti_dn) December 2, 2014
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We failed some folks
Coming soon to a city near you. It's 10 degree's in the Twin Cities right now. I would be phucked.
... preventing power from being delivered to police stations, schools, traffic lights and other city-run facilities and services
Is there something wrong with this?
this is what happens when copper cable is stolen to pay for crack habits.
Time to light up the neighborhood.
This is what happens when your country is slowly being converted to "third world" status by ravenous banksters and corrupt, greedy politicians.
What is this "Detroit" thing anyway?
"Meat's back on the menu boys!"
In Soviet America, lights turn you off!
Jackoff Smirnoff
Send in Plisken
"What is this "Detroit" thing anyway? "
The world's largest open-air zoo.
Cue the looting in 3...2...1...
Give a hoot, try not to loot!
Pants up or freeze your nads.
Hands up, DON'T LOOT, BITCHES!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-01/martin-armstrong-asks-it-time-t...
yea, perhaps that was what he meant
Heard A Big "Protest" Convoy From Fergussen Headed Thier Way For The Night Shift...
"Some folks have no electricity, and some folks can't pay their water bills."
#HandsUpDon'tLoot
Just in time for Christmas "Shopping" #lootwoot #shoptilyouredropped
No need to civilians to have guns, the police will defend you and your property, you know like they did in Ferguson #2ndamendment
lots of comments from people who dont live here.
take that picture away I can't hear you.
So what's the big deal... Detroit's been "dark" for a long time.
Dude, please. "Chocolate city" has been the preferred nomenclature since Katrina. /Walter Sobchak mode
That's racist!
For real though ,us boys in Lexington, KY would sometimes say about a particular establishment, "It's time to leave boys. It's getting kinda dark in here"
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2014/12/02/powe...
Only the city owned/run Public Lighting Dept grid was affected. The DTE (evil corporate) grid was not affected. Again.
Luckily the city keeps its own buildings on the PLD/city grid, while the the people who actually need electricity are free to pay 'the man' and get the juice.
Forward, comrades!
What!? I can't hear you over the sound of her tits.
Boris must have taken his copper mining enterprise to Detroit.
Either that, or public employees are being paid by 'the foot'.
Fuck that Armstrong nigga, man! We the United States of America, nigga! We EXCEPTIONAL!
Fight the power (outage)!
Get your X-Mass looting in early so the insurance companies can help save the shopping season....
Black Friday followed by looting Tuesday.....could be a keeper.
@TeamDepends
"Go Nads, Go GoNads!"
You mean we will have another real multicultural paradise instead of the Jewish Hollywood false propaganda in action soon?
nice pics.
is detroit part of africa?
Dem colored folks mos like ta skeer me ta def!
My guess is that this did not happen from trying to process all the overdue payments for water service.
pods
Dry run, bitchez!
"What is this "Detroit" thing anyway? "
A resource for the TBTF to mine until no viable value exists.
Better get those bitchez back on soon, or they'll be lighting fires to stay warm:)
First the water, now the power, lol
15 degrees might not be so funny about 10pm though, government help me, ohhh wait, they need power too???
Cue the panicked screaming and crying and Sharpton is booking a flight as we speak!!
Good. Leave them out.
DC and New York too.
Unleash the White Cops!
They've been leashed?
Nooooo...
This is what happens when you design a system to run on ever increasing amounts of fossil fuels and then that fuel begins to get expensive (read: depleted).
Peak oil...
Yeah, I get all my news and opinion from RT too, so much moar informative and certainly less biased.
Yeah fossil fuel prices are shooting up through the...oh, wait, never mind
Yeah they shot up like mad just after conventional crude production peaked.
Now prices are falling due to cratering demand which will result in lower oil production.
That is how we begin falling down the far side of Hubbert's Peak.
Hubbert's curve had the assumption built into it that some other source of energy would be coming online to take the place of oil. Since that doesn't seem to be happening on a scale anywhere near big enough, the dropoff will be much more sudden than Hubbert predicted. This is because oil is a keystone commodity to our ponzi economy which must grow or die.
Oh my god did I say, "Hubbert's Peak?"
You're right. I should have said, "Seneca's Cliff."
Good catch. :)
No, this is what happens when you don't maintain and upgrade your infrastructure.
Expect to see this in other major cities - a direct result of shrinking tax base and underfunded budgets.
A shrinking tax base and underfunded budgets (and money printing) and most everything ZeroHedge* publishes are all symptoms of resource depletion, population overshoot and environmental destruction predicted very neatly by the Limits to Growth paper published years ago.
All things start and stop with physics.
*There is a biophysical reason behind the fact that ZeroHedge didn't become a, "thing," until after conventional crude production peaked globally. :)
"population overshoot"?
Perhaps you could find a self-inflicted way to reduce that number by one?
In the event of population overshoot, mother nature proves to be very effective at reducing the population. Either we are overpopulated, or we aren't. That is not a moral statement, nor is it a judgment that any given person should die. Say we are, and if you take fossil fuels away, you will find that we are without them, is that an argument that you or I should kill ourselves? Is that an argument for something like eugenics? No, it is not. It is a mere statement that if you take fossil fuels away, there will not be enough resources for everybody. It is a statement that life will get ugly under those circumstances. Again, mother nature will be every bit as cruel as people can be, if not worse. Think about how you would survive if you couldn't go to a supermarket and buy food, a clothing store and buy clothes, turn the thermostat and warm your house on a freezing winter day. You have a small farm and a wood burning stove? If so, good for you, but that would put you by far in the minority.
No matter the morally repugnant ideas that population overshoot brings up in your mind, you really should consider the consequences of a sudden and drastic reduction in the immediate carrying capacity of the planet. Your survival may depend on it.
Saying "you first" to people who bring up overpopulation is nothing more than a knee jerk reaction that comes from having lived through the most prosperous times in human history.
"Expect to see this in other major cities - a direct result of shrinking tax base and underfunded budgets."
How about a direct result of unrealistic levels of spending which of course leads to to a shrinking tax base as the citizenry shrugs.
"Civilization" as we know it, might just be the mother of all failed government programs.
Yeah, it's probably all those Volts plugged into outlets causing power spikes.
In the big picture you are correct, peak everything. In the short term, this is an inappropriate application of the frame.
Globalization took Detroit jobs overseas. That took the tax base. That took the funds for upkeep. Broke back accountin'. And there you have it, short to midterm.
>>>Globalization took Detroit jobs overseas.
Uh not quite. Detroit lost jobs BC it couldn't compete with the Japanese or Europeans (I.e. Germans)...You want a reasonably priced mid tier vehicle? Buy Japanese or Korean. A luxury sedan or sports car? You buy German.
Something with some semblance of a free market still exists and the whole globalization argument is just neomarxist tripe. Global trade in fact has existed for ~3500 years, to the benefit of parties involved.
From what I understand there have been tarrifs on our cars being sold over there, but none on their cars sold over here. The labor costs being lower are not a clean issue on either side of the ocean. We have labor unions gunking up the works (adding to the cost of labor), they have more exploitative labor policies at work making that "cheaper" thing happen. My point back to you is there is less "free market" functioning in this example than you are supposing.
I come from the position that if markets were really free, most things would be produced and sold locally. Something is pretty fucked up and unnatural when the salad and the car is cheaper when it comes from 5,000 miles away. That is the tell that there is a horrible imbalance somewhere.
I come from the position that if markets were really free, most things would be produced and sold locally. Something is pretty fucked up and unnatural when the salad and the car is cheaper when it comes from 5,000 miles away. That is the tell that there is a horrible imbalance somewhere.
Sorry, wrong again. I read an article a while ago that said the three things that made globalization possible were, in order of importance:
The container ships made it possible to get past the longshoremen without the 'shrinkage', and time stuck on the docks. The internet made it possible to tie it all together (ordering, shipping, tracking, just-in-time scheduling), and cheap fibre made it reasonable to keep in touch to solve problems. (I worked in telecom; in the early 80's, a call from Toronto to New York City was over $1/minute; calls to London, England were more than $5/min). All of these combined to make a distributed organization not only workable, but able to deliver products from overseas less expensively than they could be made at home.
Shipping costs aren't that much. A container from China to the US is about $2,000, and holds about 20 tons, so shipping is only about $0.05/pound. That's why they can ship apples from S. Africa to NYC for less than moving them from upstate NY.
I understand your dismay and disbelief, but I'm an engineer, and when you run the numbers, the logic is inescapable.
Toyota learned how to play nicely with the tariffs and therefore 'insourced' certain parts of the production process US - it had/has a huge assembling plant in one of the Carolinas I believe. We're talking thousands of american jobs. Look it up, I actually read an artocle in Newsweek about it at the time :-) (I even remember on which toilet I was sitting on whilst reading the article, but I digress.)
Look, you're saying it yourself - paying union thugs to keep workers placated is a production cost of manufacturing US vehicles. If the Koreans can keep their workers happier under lower pay, then more power to them. Adam smith himself said that each laborer occupies himself with what he's best at doing. If we suck at making cars, then so be it. We won't make cars but will rather export movies and miley Cyrus to the world in exchange for their cars. It's all beautiful.
>>>I come from the position that if markets were really free, most things would be produced and sold locally.
Check your premises again. Global trade has been around for millennia. I repeat, millennia. Timber and grain from Russia were exchanged for iron tools and leather from western Europe in the middle ages, among many other things which I can't rermember right now; the silk road; the hejaz; Mecca, the pre Islamic trading hub; African ivory excavated in levantine palaces; Sidonian wool worn by achaeans as documented by the Greeks themselves. We can go on and on. This whole 'local production' movement has gotten completely out of hand. Only hunter gatherers live %100 locally. Anything else is just a neomarxist scam aimed at creating obfuscation and thence generate 'sympathy' I.e. money for locals who can't compete globally in a certain line of work.
hot sauce, you kinda have missed the point..trade has been around almost as long as gold is money. the problem is not trade. the problem is moving production 1000 of miles from where it is consumed because of regulatory ,tax and labor cost advantage..once in america you would be buying from 4 or 5 major car producers perhaps a better car was made in japan or germany, but with low unemployment and high wages - we all were better for it, and those who wanted that german car could afford to buy it tariff and all.
Oh, I fully agree that markets are distorted and economies are skewed due to the current supremacy of fiat (and by extension the use of instruments easily integrated into the fiat system - taxes and regulations). My point is, these exist in other industries yet the US has no challenge remaining super competitive therein. The National Basketball Association is a very good example of one such 'manufacturer'.
Globalization took Detroit jobs overseas. That took the tax base. That took the funds for upkeep. Broke back accountin'. And there you have it, short to midterm.
Yes, well, what drove Globalization? Has the regulatory state got anything to do with it? Has the tax code and wealth redistribution got anything to do with it? Has banking got anything to do with it? Have politicians, working for banksters, been the driving force behind it? Has the griding and seemingly inexorable advance of socialism and socialist thinking in the US got anything to do with it? Who is responsible for that? Who keeps telling Americans they are exceptional (and thus don't need to live in the real world)? Who keeps telling Americans we can afford all of this shit which we obviously can't, without $Trillion deficits?
I totally agree, you said it better, but see my answer above. "Intervention" is the problem.
Resource depletion has a lot to do with it to. :)
Globalization took Detroit jobs overseas. That took the tax base.
Oh, please. Detroit's population peaked in the early 50's but started to decline after Brown vs. Board of Education. The decline really got going in the 1960's, especially after the '67 riots. By the mid-70's, hardly any white people lived in Detroit proper. That's where the tax base went.
None of it was helped by the crooks in the Coleman Young administrations that followed. The chief and deputy chief of police were each convicted of stealing over $1 million from police funds. They were the highest profile cases, but if the big fish are playing at that level, you can be pretty sure the corruption was endemic.
By the time 'globalization' arrived, Detroit was already broke. Like any large entity, it doesn't fail all at once, but in a series of arcs, with enough respites to make fools believe that it's coming back.
It's coming back alright - as farmland.
It's coming back alright - as farmland.
I see it as a good military training ground. Let the Air Force, and the Navy bomb the snot out of it, then let the Marines, and Army go practice in it.
Third world training without leaving the country.
Advanced training available in Camden, NJ. Actually, I'm thinking of setting up hunting trips there. The most dangerous game. That would make the surrounding economy boom. Hotels, arms sales, supplies, etc.
The frame I'm creating has to do with addiction to oil to varying degrees.
Peak oil is merely the fact that makes that frame relavent. Detroit's demise started in the 40's when oil prices more than doubled in that 10 year period of time. That led to Peak Detroit in most senses of the word.
A few years back in Detroit a certain individual decided he was going to "get me some electricity" and climbed up a power pole with some jumper cables and an extension cord. He ended up blowing up a transformer and was literally burned to a crisp up on the pole.
Silly teens.
IIRC, he was in his 40s or 50s
You always got to respect AC power especially at 120 volts or greater. And most pole power is much greater than 120.... Poor fool probably tried to get on the upstream side of the transformer and hooked into real source power. Sometimes the five finger discount just ain't worth it.
Politics follows biology.
3rd world populace -> 3rd world country.
Genius in it's simplicity. So true.
Right. Nothing special about Detriot, it's just an african city, ie: Johannesburg.
Fuck I knew I forgot something, to pay the electric bill.
Losing power in the winter sucks and is kinda cold.
I can understand this might be news. But "evacuations?" From the just-us building?
Okay everybody, please walk outside. Done.
Wait till something REALLY happens. Amerikans will be crying from their collective vaginas.
pods
Like an EMP attack, or a Coronal Mass Ejection.
I once hit a chick with a Coronal Mass Ejection. She was NOT happy. That shit is tough to get out.
pods
It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye.
iJACKING of threads will not be tolerated
what do you think caused the coronal mass ejection
For me, Mexican food always leads to colonal mass ejection. Had to JB weld the toilet back together.
I knew this thread would be worth reading. And it is.
Don't you stop
Don't you wonder why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_A8Xe9M0NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LdiaLMLM-Q
No Stairway... DENIED!
If you've never checked out satellite images of Detroit click the link. Whole blocks empty. Half of what's left standing is only there because it costs too much to knock down.
http://mapq.st/1yDB1mV
Good god.
Now, do not let the folks see that !
And close to an MLK Blvd too.
Shocked I tell you.
pods
It's a present day symbol of Krugmanomics.
The city borrowed more than it could ever hope to repay, throwing concerns of fiscal ability to the wind.
Krugman's wet dream.
We have to burn the crack houses for heat around here.
Quick, break some windows, that'll fix it!
It is returning to prarie. This is the best alternative. It is a failed city. The RINO and Democrats gov wants to turn it into a Chinese city.
I am sure conservative republicans could have fixed it up good as new. /sarc/
why not just say "the politicians want to turn it into a Chinese city"
All the conservative republicans left Afro-Detroitica years ago.
Actually, they were thrown out by da peeples.
Now they run all the suburbs & are enjoying heat, power, tidy neighborhoods, minimal crime, decent schools, good roads, etc.
/sarc
Actually, a large part of the city budget is towards knocking buildings down. I went to college with the mayor, knew him from the dormitory. Good guy.
I drove a delivery truck in Detroit for a summer back in 1982, too. It was still somewhat vibrant. Can't believe some of these images. Not that it was ever a vacation hotspot.
And the "Coleman Young" building? WTF? That asshole drained the city as much as anyone. A monument to the absurd.
You can buy those lots for a few grand a piece. But, no one wants them. Why? B/c they know the government is corrupt and will tax them into poverty. Oh, and no businesses want to locate there b/c the citizens all belong to the FSA. They don't want to work. They want their free shit. Que the looting.
Homeowners in Detroit can buy adjacent empty lots for $1 from the city.
There are 75,000 vacant lots/homes being auctioned off this coming spring, for starters. 98% of them will not be bid on, sold for $1, etc.
And that's just the start. There's probably a backlog of 5x that number of properties in default on deck that the city will be trying to auction off after that.
I know this because a client of mine is considered investing in some sort of urban farming (after land clearing/banking) non-profit operation there, next to an existing non-profit tree farm operation undertaken two years ago (on land where 5500 homes once stood, I believe).
funny, but half of that devistation has happened since Obama took office. Winning!
Yep,
Look at MLK, speaking of which, has there ever been an area named after him that wasn't the most dangerous place to be. Even in Austin its not a place you want to pitch a tent.
Spent 6 months in Detroit in 1988. Worked downtown and lived in Birmingham.
I had to pay $50 out of each paycheck for the privilige of working in the city.
It was a shithole then, its a shithole now.
Now that there is no power in those lines, the copper theft will go up 100 fold..
I'm thinking wait for about an hour, then kick the breaker back on. Worlds largest bug-zapper.
Then off again for an hour, then back on... repeat at random intervals for awhile.
And they say ZH offers no solutions to the problems of our day! :)
Well, Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood has been on this for the best part of century and as a result we are 16% black rather than 36%. Democrats increased the -intensity- of the suck in our poor areas via their 20 trillion dollar(and rapidly Counting) war on poverty, but at the same time prevented tens of millions of blacks lives being ruined by it, by killing them in utero. They really don't care about results, of course. Their intentions on the other hand they can't shut up about.
I like the "Detroit Math" on "900 students"......priceless.
No public services in Detroit.
How is this news?
It is news when power to the cops is cut off. How are they supposed to keep the inmates under control?
"Take It Home Fo' Free" Tuesday should go a lil better than "Cyber" Monday......
without power, the cells cannot be opened. I'm heat broken.
The gun and badge thugs won't be able to coordinate their brutality or cover stories.
Damn shame. /s
An American, not US subject.
Imagine the riots if the TV cable was stolen.
Super Hairy Rob Lowe was right.....Cable does suck
Looks like a huge traffic jam at Woodward and Jefferson. lulz.
There is more traffic at the light closest to my house.
pods
Black Tuesday Sale!
All you can carry for free!
Yo, itbeeda 5-finger discount, fo as long asda lightsbeeout.
Who axed yo opinion?
Das rayciss!
Anytime you think something like this and it ends with "I would be phucked," it's a wake-up call to prepare for it.
Generators and backup propane tanks to run them and heat the house aren't that expensive. A lock and chain and an AR to keep it from walking away would be a good start as well.
True, when we went through Cali's largest wildfire and were without power for three weeks, it was a definite wake up call. Our goal is 100% off grid capability which has been extremely expensive to pull off. I thought it odd the engineer who is designing our system did happen to mention the danger in doing so. He said he always warns people about this when they go down this path because they fail to see what could happen in a societal breakdown scenario. He was relieved to see this wasn't an issue for us but said all the city clients he had were completely clueless to what he was saying and were not adequately prepared for this. We are hoping those individuals will be our decoys.
Miffed
Stay warm - Burn a building
If you do not have a backup in the twin cities you are well and truly screwed. If your not a stupid commie who voted AL, try this:http://tinyurl.com/o86m2rd
These work great and will heat an entire house, ten gallons of fuel and your good for some time. No smell no fuss. If you voted for AL freeze in the dark numb nuts..
Go propane. Cheaper for the heater, and cheaper for the fuel.
Does not run as long and to put out the same BTUS requires forced air, I am wrong lets see it?
This is what we have. Much nicer than the kerosene heater we had. Been running one as a supplement to heat pump for 4 years.
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200362091_200362091
To each his own though. Kerosene was a PIA for me. Had to keep gallons onsite for emergencies and never would think of using the heater as a secondary heat source.
This propane heater serves both purposes.
pods
I find myself corrected, thank you
No correction needed. We had the kerosene for emergency too.
You can add a blower (electric) but seems to do fine without it.
Kerosene is also portable.
pods
We were the first American distributor in our area for a competitor in the way back.
One ironclad rule: kerosene only. Use diesel 1 and you WILL be painting the entire inside of your house.
Second ironclad rule: Find a bulk petroleum distributor in your area that sells kerosene out of a gas pump. The prices at the stores for a 5-gal can of the stuff is ridiculolus-- like $10 a gallon ridiculous.
Both a must. Fleet farm in the Twin Cities sells it out of the pump and inside the store for 200% more.. These things will heat your house in an emergency for a good long time.
Nice TY
If living in Baltimore is worse than living in Nigeria, what is living in Detroit like?
I really don't like complicated riddles - just tell us the answer.
I went to a game at Comerica Park a few years back. I remember stepping out onto the concourse to have a smoke and looking out at the neighborhoods surrounding downtown. The only way I could've made what I saw look better is if I had jammed the lit end of the cigarette into each of my eyes.
Does that help?
Scooby Doo ghost town
Bwwaaaaaahh haaaaa haaaaa !
I lived in Michigan when Comerica Park was put up
What's unknown by most Americans is Detroit was a true world-class city in the early 20th century. Famous for its trees and buildings.
GM got the trolley cars removed then corrupt city Government along with an apethetic citizenry killed it
Amerikan Communism at its finest
Incorrect word choice. I think the term you wanted was "fascism". Go learn the difference. And, YES, there IS a difference.
Yes, the difference is that communism has a much higher body count. Credit where credit is due.
"Amerikan Communism at its finest"
Nope. The streetcars were "communist" ... not even communist, more like socialist and I'd rather live in a city with streetcars (public transport) than one choking on private transportation.
In 1998 I traveled by train to Detroit from Chicago.
I left my "bang-bang" at home, as I did not know if Amtrak used metal detectors. So I was defenseless.
I knew the ghettos of Chicago pretty well, and they weren't too bad, so I figured, "How bad could Detroit be?"
Got off the train in Dearborn, I think. Did some business, and then boarded a bus for downtown. I rode the bus often in Chicago, "How bad could Detroit be?"
After about 10 or 15 minutes of riding along, I realized that ALL had changed. There were nothing but hardcore niggers on the bus, and a scene of desolation out the windows. I found myself clutching myself where my "bang-bang" should have been, feeling stupid for leaving it behind. I was trapped, as I couldn't get off and I didn't want to stay on.
Adding to the anxiety was the fact that I knew the animals around me could smell fear a mile away. Therefore I had to maintain my composure of calm, while I stared out the windows at the desolation. I felt like a Buddha in a nightmare.
I made it fine to downtown, all was well, but I have never been in a situation so full of anxiety in my life. Completely stupid of me.
Anyways, I went to John King books the next day, and then used a taxi to get to the train station and home.
When I got home, some colleagues asked if I thought Detroit, "Would be coming back?" I just laughed.
An American, not US subject.
When you enter a warzone, always remember there is no rule of law unless you can impose it yourself.
Tacitus said 'the people are the city'. And when the people are black the city will be like one in Africa. Billions of man- hours and trillions of dollars have been utterly wasted through failing to acknowledge this simple truth.
Back when our nation had more sense, we tried returning them to the wild. The Liberian experiment succeeded. Look at how quickly they returned to their spear-chuckin', cannibalizing, raping roots!
The blacks of the American country are just a caged canary in the DC US coalmine, police-state.
Pay special attention to their plight, as it will soon be ours.
An American, not US subject.
While I appreciate you well informed opinion, never forget that the banksters, and their governmnet puppets, stole from us, via taxes and "printing," the trillions spent on the blacks of Detroit.
The banksters stole the industries that Detroit depended on by way of fraudulent-reserve banking and "printing," and governmnet subsidized them.
The whole thing, as all government actions are, is a racket to enrich the pols, crats, and banksters.
An American, not US subject.
"Make the world a better place, guillotine a pol, crat, func, and/or bankster."
Public entities all have nat gas gen back-up power..
Public employees will still be paid, with next to no impact on what ever they do when the lights are on..
I wonder what the over/under is %wise on how much of that power is subsidized..
Brilliant way to fudge some budget numbers..
I think dis is a great opodunity to grabs some free shits. Al of us's can blames its on de Fergusen more. Come ons cuz...drop dat 40...free shits awaitn.
Failed for sure! Since when do people NEED to be evacuated from a city due to a power outage! Evacuate now I have lost all hope for my fellow man.
Be real easy to sneak some boom boom sticks in while the city is evacuated.
The real news, of course, is that neither the Police Dept. or the Schools functioned correctly, yesterday either.
I hear they have quite the number of abandoned houses. Light 'em up ! Folks get warm.....and the blight goes away.