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Detroit's Power Grid Is Down And People Are Stuck In Elevators
www.businessinsider.com ^ | 12-02-2014 | Pamela Engel

Posted on 12/02/2014 8:54:22 AM PST by Red Badger

Detroit — A widespread power outage Tuesday has caused evacuations of buildings throughout the downtown, including Joe Louis Arena, Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, the Detroit Institute of Arts and some buildings at Wayne State University. Most of Detroit's municipal power grid has gone down, cutting electricity to public buildings in the city, officials have said.

Police, fire, school, and jail buildings have lost power and traffic lights aren't working, a city spokesperson said.

Some people are trapped in elevators throughout Detroit, according to Detroit Fire Chief Jack Wiley, and fire crews are working to free them.

Affected buildings included Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State, and the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, which people evacuated by stairwells, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/power-outage-in-detroit-2014-12#ixzz3KlCvAAia

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; energy
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To: taildragger

or a dead squirrel on a power line.....................


41 posted on 12/02/2014 9:08:44 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

True, I woke up to his tripe the morning of the Ferguson Grand Jury announcement. I wanted to reach through the television and strangle him.


42 posted on 12/02/2014 9:09:26 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Downtown Detroit doesn’t get all the power from one place. You can have 3 buildings in a row without power, then 2 with power followed by another without. The same set of buildings lost power last summer due to a substation fire. This one is the municipal power service.

Comerica park, Ford Field buy their power from DTE and have their own substations.


43 posted on 12/02/2014 9:09:59 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Kartographer

Prepper Ping


44 posted on 12/02/2014 9:10:12 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: House Atreides

45 posted on 12/02/2014 9:10:22 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: defconw

When he comes on the tv goes off...................


46 posted on 12/02/2014 9:11:14 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: ozarkgirl

Target of opportunity..................


47 posted on 12/02/2014 9:11:43 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Years ago, I was in an Elevator at CPAC with Tom Delay and four Virgin Atlantic Flight Attendants.

The only person I chatted up was Tom Delay. LOL


48 posted on 12/02/2014 9:11:52 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (If you thought the Mulatto Marxist was bad, wait until the Menopausal Marxist is Elected.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“ancient infrastructure?”

That is what I was thinking. Known as deferred maintenance.

I like the one above that we have to wait for the wind to pick up speed again. Hahahahaha


49 posted on 12/02/2014 9:11:59 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: cripplecreek

Amazing.

I dont wish anyone the loss of electric power...with the possible exception of the Whitehouse...and a couple of other prime locations.


50 posted on 12/02/2014 9:12:13 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Red Badger
ZOMBIE W
51 posted on 12/02/2014 9:13:51 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: PGR88

Tell Sharpton to get his dumb little Obamahole up there to fix it.


52 posted on 12/02/2014 9:14:24 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Parley Baer
the SUN will come out Tomorrow...




53 posted on 12/02/2014 9:15:08 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: C210N

“..How many are stuck in escalators?...”

Liberals, politicians, and Obamafone owners.


54 posted on 12/02/2014 9:15:38 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: taildragger
My guess? It is potentially related to these upgrades / corrections to the deficiencies in the existing system...

That would be my guess. The new stretch of light rail right downtown just came online the day before Thanksgiving and my guess would be that its related to that.

As a Michigan resident, I can't help but wonder what the hell is going on in the liberal bastion of Ann Arbor. Their power goes out every time a cloud passes overhead. I'm over here in Jacksatucky county as they so snidely call it and our power almost never goes out.
55 posted on 12/02/2014 9:16:33 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Red Badger

Nicely done RB


56 posted on 12/02/2014 9:19:23 AM PST by RWGinger
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To: PGR88

Argentina. Bosnia. This sort of thing will come to the USA soon. The entire country will soon look like Detroit if people like the Clintons have their way

http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/a-survival-q-a-living-through-shtf-in-the-middle-of-a-war-zone_10252011


57 posted on 12/02/2014 9:19:36 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: RWGinger

I was wondering if anyone would get it...............


58 posted on 12/02/2014 9:21:53 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: cripplecreek
We have power down here in Ecorse. Might make for an interesting ride home tonight though.
59 posted on 12/02/2014 9:22:59 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Red Badger

While the good working people in Detroit are trapped in elevators or at work, it’s Jungle fever time for the any of the natives who loot and rob at leisure.

Let’s see what the wind reaps. It may make Ferguson look like a picnic or it may reflect the opposite. Anyway, hope someone has CCW at hand when police are minutes or fortnights away.

Good luck, Detroit. America’s watching and taking notes.


60 posted on 12/02/2014 9:23:08 AM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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