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Trumpocalypse

(6,143 posts) Sat Jul 13, 2019, 09:40 PM Jul 2019

Hope anyone here in NYC tonight is safe

and well.

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Hope anyone here in NYC tonight is safe (Original Post) Trumpocalypse Jul 2019 OP

Do they know what caused the blackout? dewsgirl Jul 2019 #1

Transformer fire on the west side. dhol82 Jul 2019 #3

Thank you. It's got to be hella scary with it covering so much of an area, that is usually dewsgirl Jul 2019 #4

Really not a major problem. Just a power outage in a small area of Manhattan. dhol82 Jul 2019 #2

It's a transformer fire. It happens. Lochloosa Jul 2019 #5

The most scary part to me malaise Jul 2019 #6

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

1. Do they know what caused the blackout?

Reply to Trumpocalypse (Original post)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 09:46 PM

Jul 2019

dhol82

(9,352 posts)

3. Transformer fire on the west side.

Reply to dewsgirl (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 09:48 PM

Jul 2019

Something exploded under a manhole. No explanation as to what triggered it.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

4. Thank you. It's got to be hella scary with it covering so much of an area, that is usually

Reply to dhol82 (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 09:55 PM

Jul 2019

quite bright.

dhol82

(9,352 posts)

2. Really not a major problem. Just a power outage in a small area of Manhattan.

Reply to Trumpocalypse (Original post)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 09:47 PM

Jul 2019

Only bit of devastation was the Broadway shows that were canceled. Imagine you got tix to Hamilton a year ago and tonight the lights went out. Oy!

Lochloosa

(16,060 posts)

5. It's a transformer fire. It happens.

Reply to Trumpocalypse (Original post)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 10:19 PM

Jul 2019

malaise

(268,686 posts)

6. The most scary part to me

Reply to Trumpocalypse (Original post)

Sat Jul 13, 2019, 10:24 PM

Jul 2019

is that it's 42 years to the day since the 1977 NY power outage

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