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New York night sky bathed in eerie blue light after explosion at Con Edison electric plant [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 28, 2018 | Matthew Wright

Posted on 12/28/2018 6:40:36 AM PST by C19fan

New York skyline turned a bizarre blue on Thursday night after an explosion at a Con Edison plant - causing panic and confusion for millions across the city. Bewildered residents took to the streets and shared images on social media after the haze filled the sky at around 9.20pm for three minutes after the blast at the substation in Astoria, Queens. Power was cut at many addresses across the area including the nearby La Guardia airport, which was forced to ground all flights for more than an hour during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Officials at the notorious Rikers Island jail were also forced to use backup generators when their electricity shut off for 25 minutes and there were delays on the subway.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: electricity; nyc
I am not sayin.....
1 posted on 12/28/2018 6:40:36 AM PST by C19fan
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Yea lot so strange happenings last night in NY, OH, LA, WA OR states, transformers blowing up, Sprint, Verizon losing service, CenturyTel down all day and still down today, 911 service down in many areas..


2 posted on 12/28/2018 6:43:24 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: C19fan

3 posted on 12/28/2018 6:50:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

Must be Agent K neurolizing the whole city.


4 posted on 12/28/2018 6:57:45 AM PST by Mercat
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Saw some pics of NY....that must have been damn scary.


5 posted on 12/28/2018 7:00:39 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: dpetty121263

All the failed systems have one thing in common - Chinese manufactured computer chips.

Click of a mouse at a PLA facility in China, and ....


6 posted on 12/28/2018 7:03:03 AM PST by PAR35
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To: dpetty121263

Remember INCIDENT AT EXETER?


7 posted on 12/28/2018 7:06:31 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yes heard of that way back when, hadn’t seen any reports of UFO’s but some strange happenings for sure.


8 posted on 12/28/2018 7:21:57 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: BenLurkin

Space aliens is not the first thing I thought of. Chernobyl is what came to my mind first.


9 posted on 12/28/2018 7:33:34 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: C19fan
This is sort of good news. A transformer at a power sub-station explodes and power is restored within the hour? I would have thought that replacing a transformer would take a lot longer. They must have re-routed power temporarily.

Either way, it does bode somewhat well should certain types of groups wish to deal a blow to the grid in such a fashion.

10 posted on 12/28/2018 7:46:23 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned about who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire)
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It also caused some of the runway lights at LaGuardia airport to go out for 1/2 an hour on one of the busiest travel days of the year.


11 posted on 12/28/2018 7:57:28 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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IF they a replacement transformer on site, and many utilities do order 4x transformers built when they use the other three every hour, it will take two weeks to unhook and remove the burned one, clean up and move and install the replacement, and region it it up. IF - big if there! - there was no damage to the generators and switchgear inside.


12 posted on 12/28/2018 8:20:56 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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Building and shipping and installing a new transformer? 6 months.

At least the generators and switchgear could get rebuilt and installed while they wait. That’s what happened at plant Bowen 2 when it’s transformed burned.


13 posted on 12/28/2018 8:24:40 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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Someone put a penny behind the fuse again. Shame.


14 posted on 12/28/2018 8:26:46 AM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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Someone put a penny behind the fuse again.

Too big to fail.

15 posted on 12/28/2018 10:23:45 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Star-ship downed in Big Apple!
16 posted on 12/28/2018 4:18:51 PM PST by jaz.357 (Blithering Intellectual.)
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