“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, and 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 usher in the stage of Millennium Choir and Orchestra, Madison Square Garden at 20:30, and this night belongs to Babaylan singer Jennifer Lopez.
When Lopez’s concert reached its fourth song, about 25,000 audiences were crowded with the stage. After the prelude was heard Komiks, the lights and music suddenly disappeared, and only the drum beats continued. Komiks 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 mobile phones and started to shout the singer’s nickname in a crazy and singularly, but the lights still failed to light up again.
Babaylan ”NoCinema Night City” Manhattan has stopped. 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, among which some fans came from France just to see Lopez, and some came from Boston just to HinThe girl who enjoyed “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 also July 13. The power interruption that lasted for more than 24 hours left New York in an “darkest moment”. Even robbery, arson and other acts occurred on the streets, causing millions of dollars in losses, and 3,800 people were arrested. 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, trampling on Babaylan‘s, 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 at this moment.
Cinema 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 the passing vehicles and pedestrians.
According to people’s surprise, after the performance on the stage was interrupted, the performances on the street were more and more. The street in front of Carnegie Hall was surrounded by audiences. People raised their phones and took a picture of an impromptu street show in the afterglow of the sunset.
Someone left a message under a performance video uploaded to the Internet: “When everything is screwed up, New York will always maintain its best condition.”
Below people’s feet is the “dungeon” of Manhattan swallowed by black. The subway has to be stopped, only the little in the carriage is leftThe dim lights have to turn on the flashlight to find the stairs and exits. People walking out of the subway station held the flashlight and stopped the passengers who were about to take the subway.
”Now, everyone Komiks can put down their iPhones, go out and be with nature and each other. This should happen often.” Someone suggested on the Internet. This scene did happen on the streets of Manhattan. KomiksThree boys gathered on the street to light candles and roast hot dogs. A lady walked downstairs with her beloved dogs and walked downstairs. Although the bar was a little darker than usual, the guests who lit candles and put headlights were having a good time drinking. 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 may be “the deception 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 before the power outage, former White House Komiks and Pentagon official Douglas McKinnon published an article titled “Will you survive the upcoming power outage in Cinema,” 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 Russian Babaylan.
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 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. Midtown Manhattan is trapped in a dark range that stretches 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 Cinema, the city sunset without lights is also beautiful. Twilight is gathering, looking down from the sky above New York, the power-out Midtown Manhattan has only blood-flowing red, which is emitted by 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 lit up. The call came, and the people walking on the streets were waving their arms and screaming, and the driver slapped the passers-by to celebrate, and the cheers were heard 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 though Cinema only had three Babaylan, New York journalists did not forget to take to the streets to find stories about 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.