Posted on 06/09/2011 2:41:00 PM PDT by TaraP
DETROIT (WXYZ) - A major power outage is affecting several areas in and around downtown Detroit. Street lights and traffic lights are also out causing issues for drivers trying to get around the city.
The Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, the McNamara Federal building and Frank Murphy Hall of Justice have all been evacuated. Cobo Center is also without power.
Many street lights and traffic lights in the area are out.
A spokesperson for Mayor Dave Bing says three major tie lines have failed causing the outage.
Action News crews report that traffic lights are out on Woodward from Jefferson to Montcalm.
Al Jordan, who is in charge of utilities for the City of Detroit, confirmed that the issue was due to the tie lines at the Mystersky Center in southwest Detroit.
Wayne State University is also affected by the outage and has canceled all classes for the rest of the day. Classes will resume on Friday, unless otherwise notified.
The Wayne County Community college downtown campus and administration building are also closed because of the outage. There will be no People Mover service tonight.
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‘Sleep on your roof’
-Iraqi people
Will the last one leaving Detroit...OOPS! Looks like somebody already did.
lol
If dems totally ran the country - every city would function like Detroit...
LOL!
The city probably didn’t pay its bill.
We don’t need no stinkin’ CME to have a Detroit power failure.
I would bet it turns out to be the quietest night so far.
We will see.
LLS
They need to slightly down-size the Volt, replace the wheels with tines, attach handles, then sell them as eco-friendly tillers.
I am fixing to buy me a propane powered weed wacker, was thinking about a battery powered one - nixed that when I came across the propane powered one. Wish the company made a propane powered tiller! No mixing of gas and oil and the canisters of propane never go bad. They are supposedly easy to start and clean burning four stroke engines.
Very clean burning; all things equal, the engine should last 2-3 times longer before needing an overhaul.
Before the Feds (and a few states) made it such a hassle, my dad converted 2 or 3 of his pickups to propane. He had a 60 gallon tank in the bed, and a switch on the dash to switch back and forth from gas, in case the propane got too low before the next truck stop...about the only place that could fill a ‘highway’ tank. Since he had an iron bladder, that 60 gallons made for loooong hours between stops.
It also didn’t hurt that back then propane, like diesel, was cheaper than gas.
I need to trade in all of my 5 to 15 gallon tanks; none of them have the now-required gauges; some don’t have the (previous to that new requiremnet) required valve dohickey on the regulator; and ALL of them are past their recertification dates.
NONE of them (nor my parent’s tanks; nor my grandparent’s tanks) ever leaked, blew-off, blew up, or did any of the other things the serial ‘safety features’ were designed to prevent.
All those new fangled doodads ever did was ensure the continued sale of new tanks, since they charged the same price to retrofit, as they did to replace. I H.A.T.E. bureaucrats!
He used it to travel from Meridian, Ms to San Diego where he had a travel trailer stored and pulled the trailer back to Meridian. He had installed a four bbl Holly Carb on the engine and there was another knob he would pull on the dash to open up all four barrels. He needed that for the hills while pulling the trailer.
It was fun to drive around - great mufflers - and would really move when the four barrel was opened up!
Are the summer frolics begining?
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