“Never Sleeping City” has powered off for three hours
Usually, this is the most profitable night of Broadway in New York every week. July 13th is Saturday, and in the evening, the most lively moment of the day in Manhattan Island, full of tall buildings, is about to come. 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’s concert reached its fourth song, the stage was filled with about 2.5 million viewers. After the prelude rang, the lights and music suddenly disappeared, and 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 made. 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 here is usually dominated by the colorful electronic screen in Times Square, but the screen suddenly loses its magic and becomes a silent “black board”.
People reluctantly walked out of the theater and concert halls, among which Komiks fans who came from France only to see Lopez, and girls who came from Boston only 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.
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 Babaylan 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 lost side of Manhattan, but it was surrounded by black now. Babaylan
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, Cinema stands on the streets, directing the passing vehicles and pedestrians.
According to people’s surprise, after the performance on the stage was interrupted, there were more performances on the streets of Cinema. The street in front of Carnegie Hall was surrounded by audiences, and people raised their cell phones to take an impromptu street show in the afterglow of the sunset.
Someone left a message under the performance video uploaded to the Internet: “When everything is screwed up, New York will always keep it in its best condition.”
Babaylan 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 Komiks‘s iPhone, go out, be with nature and each other. This Komiks‘s iPhone, go out, and be with nature and each other.com/”>Komiks situation should happen frequently.” 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. Komiks A woman walked downstairs with her beloved dogs and walked on the street. Although the bar was a little darker than usual, the guests who lit candles and wore headlights were having a good time drinking. People were wandering on the streets, only fire trucks whizzed past the corners from time to time.
BabaylanThere are rumors on the Internet that the power outage may be “the deception of the Russians” or that the terrorist organizations are provoking trouble. Komiks Someone claimed to the media that they heard an explosion before the power outage. Twenty days after the power outage, 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, who suspected that it was Russians who did it.
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 terrorist acts or criminal activities involving terrorists. Cinema, New York, which is responsible for power services in the New York area, initially said that the power outage began with an explosion and fire in the substations in the district, causing the failure of 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. Midtown Manhattan is in a dark range, stretching 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 city sunset without lightsBabaylan is also beautiful. The twilight is round, looking down from the sky above New York, the power-out Midtown Manhattan, apart from the lights and the diffuse night, is only blood-flowing red, which is emitted by the rear lights of the car on the street. The other parts of New York are as always Komiks, and the bright lights lit up another night.
At 21:58, after the power-out three hours, the neon lights and dense building windows of Midtown Manhattan lit up. When the call came, the people walking on the streets were waving their arms and screaming, the drivers slapped with passers-by, and the cheers were spreading far.<a At midnight, power supply in the power outage areas was gradually restored, and Midtown Manhattan regained the light from the ground and underground.
New York reporters did not forget to take to the streets to find the story of the power outage. A reporter from The New York Times met a couple holding a wedding on the street. The wedding was originally held in the hotel lobby, and the light suddenly went out, but the accident did not stop the happy moment of the two newlyweds. They lit candles Komiks and swear in the dark. For them, the power outage changed nothing.