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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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Welcome Detroit to "the Heart of Darkness" .
This is what the whole North America will look like soon...
Redwings will win, even in the dark.
A downvote from a god damned black Panther.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtGxusvUT3k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsTAUs_h_uY
no water, no electricity.
what's next obummer?
Isn't this 21st century just grand....?
EVACUATIONS? Seriously?
This should read, "Giddy kids and workers get released from school and work as a result of big power failure."
No evacations, really - not until the sh*t really hits the fan...in 5, 4, 3, 2..
I think Detroit's infrastructure, sewer, water, and power assets were all carried through bankruptcy @ 100% value, as if they were just finished last year, not actual cash value.
The people eating shit in Detroit have just begun to eat shit, the screwjob is just beginning, the looting didn't end with bankruptcy it just got another protective layer of scumbag lawyers and bankers wetting their beaks.
I'm amazed that the EBTs are still paying out. The game goes on....
The recovery is so good, you can keep your electricity.
Detroit? "Black" out ? How's that possible ?
do Ebola tests work in the dark?
New Detroit is a white mans burden, without enough white people to cary it. Or enough white people to transfer blame to. Very frustrating, no one politically correct to blame.
remember what steak use to taste like? rib eye, new york strip, porterhouse.
those poor souls in detroit deserve to eat steak.
no water, no electricity, ... detroit don't remeber what steak tastes like.
obama has wiped the memory of steak from the minds of the american masses
Cattle rustling's way up in this global climate of starvation. We starved some folks.... shot some, froze some and if I need to act withou congress to do it again I will. We can't have the America I think e al want by waiting on congress, so by executive order I ust did it. Don't bother thanking me, we all just need to get back to work doing our jobs now.
Whats the problem, most of Detroit residents have been cut off by the supplier anyway!
Putin did it.
As long as you have snow and cold to keep you warm you should be fine but you'll have to pay more than some other folks in the summer months because you used your cooling allowance to stay warm in the winter months. We warmed some folks with cold. We did. If you want to use the ebola money to rebuild the infrastructural infrastructure you'll have to get your shots to make sure you can afford to stay warm in a global economy of climate change due to we're gonna tax some folks....?
Let's make this easier: What's NOT broken in Detroit?
Power restored in Detroit;http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2014/12/02/powe...
"A student in Detroit has a higher chance of going to prison than graduating high school." 25% high school graduation rate. Dayum!
Linked is the nickle Dee-troit ghetto tour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw
It's funny that Detroit seems to be the "test" ground for all kinds of disasters. No?
The "public" buildings , which means Government Buildings are a great place to test this grid down scenario. No?
Good thing the people working for government are dumb and quiet. They will just move along quietly and wait for Obama to save them. No?
No riots. Yet. No protests. Yet. No civil unrest. Yet. These people are good boys and girls. Now shutup.
TPTB will take care of you. Line up. Get your food voucher. The water truck is over there. Shelter in place.
What a farce.