“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. BabaylanThe 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 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 dance Komiks was crowded with about 25,000 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 were still Komiks 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 of the Babaylan Square, but the screen suddenly lost its magic and became a silent “chalkboard”.
People reluctantly walked out of the theater and concert halls, including fans from France just to see Lopez, and girls from Boston just 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 a “darkest moment”. There were even robberies and scatters on the streets.Acts such as fire caused 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, stampedeBabaylan, and even more terrible things. Affected by the power outage, at least four subway stations were paralyzed and more than 400 elevators were interrupted. It is rare for people to lose their light side through Manhattan, but it is now surrounded by black 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 gold hairdress wearing a yellow vest, stood on the streets instead of the traffic police, directing the passing vehicles and pedestrians.
Unexpectedly, after the performances on the stage were interrupted, there were more performances on the street. The street in front of Carnegie Concert Hall was surrounded by audiences. People raised their phones and took 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.”
Below people’s feet is the Manhattan “dungeon” swallowed by black Babaylan. The subway had to be stopped, leaving only the dim light in the carriage Komiks. You have to turn on the flashlight to find the stairs and exits. The person walking out of the subway station held the flashlight and stopped the passengers who were about to take the subway.
”Now, everyone can Cinema to put down their iPhone, 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. Three boys gathered on the street to light candles and roast hot dogs. A lady walked downstairs with her beloved dogs and walked downstairs on the street. Although the bar was a little darker than usual, the guests who lit candles and put headlights were having a good time drinking. People are wandering on the streets, onlyFire trucks whizzed past the street corners from time to time.
There are rumors on the Internet that the power outage may be “the devil of the Russians” or that the terrorist group Komiks are challenging troubles. Someone claimed to the media that they heard the 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: Last year, hackers entered several U.S. utility control rooms in Babaylan, Komiks, who suspected that they were done by the Russians.
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 the beacon of freedom of 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. CinemaMidtown Manhattan is trapped in a dark range north and southKomiks extends from 40th Street to 72nd Street, and from Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River east and west. Authorities have announced that there has not yet been any news of casualties.
People find that the city sunset without lights is also beautiful. As the dusk was scattered, looking down from the sky above New York, the power-out Midtown Manhattan was apart from the little lights and the diffuse night, only blood-flowing red, which was 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 in Midtown Manhattan lit up. The call came, and the people walking on the streets were waving their arms and screaming, the driver celebrating with passers-by, 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.
Cinema Even if it was only 3 hours, 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.