NY Blackout?

[bigtree]

anyone confirm this?

Josh Dorner ‏@JoshDorner

Serious blackout in NYC


http://instagr.am/p/RYwCUPxrru/ # sandy

[MichiganVote]

1. looting in 1...2...3

[Chorophyll]

5. Nice. Real nice.

[myrna minx]

6. Wow -what a horrible thing to say.

[MichiganVote]

7. ok, we'll see.

[myrna minx]

8. Considering it was a decision made by Con-Edison to power down, they apparently

have a better idea of how to manage their city better than an anonymous internet poster who has ignorant opinions about New Yorkers.

[MichiganVote]

9. You're probably right. Looting only happens in other places.

[myrna minx]

10. It might be thoughtful to wait for people to be out of harm's way before you assume New Yorkers are

going to loot their city.

[MichiganVote]

11. Is that what I did? Pardon me. I should have said looting by non New Yorkers.

Thank you for setting me straight. I might have offended someone in NY which should be avoided at all costs.

[bigtree]

14. in the last major NY blackout

. . . most of the folks there were excellent to each other. I remember seeing the crowds walking home after work. Folks there can speak to this better than I can, but I think that one went on and over without any overt (or apparent) chaos or anarchy.

[Ellipsis]

21. An old friend of mine related this story to me...

When the power went off, his friend thought the Russians were invading... and polished off most of a bottle of Vodka, they went to check on him and found him just blasted in his apartment,in the complete darknes, in the village ranting about how the the Russians were coming.

He was a broadway gypsy and he said everyone came out into the street with candles and such... they had a wonderful time dancing the bulk of the night away.

[Chorophyll]

19. Holy crap, dude. It's a little bit hard to loot when you're dealing with 12-foot storm surges.

Do you have a problem with New York in particular, or humans in general?

[MichiganVote]

22. Sounds like you've got it figured out.

[DonRedwood]

29. I sat on my roof in L.A. during the Rodney King riots and EVERY business in our neighborhood

was looted and many of them burned.

The only exception was the little market at the end of the block. The Korean owners were up on the roof with rifles to keep it safe.

So... I'm not going to knock what you say. It is terrible to live through though and I wish good will towards the peeps of NY.

[FrodosPet]

28. A LOT of people are joking about looting on Twitter

https://twitter.com/search?q=looting&src=typd

And of course the Alex Jones crowd is taking them seriously (just like they are with the "If Obama loses I'm gonna riot" tweets).

http://www.infowars.com/gangs-plan-hurricane-looting-spree-via-twitter/

Is there going to be SOME looting? Of course - there already has been. Is it going to be widespread? Unlikely.

[Chorophyll]

30. Potential looters in NYC are going to have be okay with swimming through the streets

and looting wet merchandise. And it's not like the stuff running through the streets is nice clean water, either.

I really do not think looting is going to be the utmost concern here.

[morningfog]

12. You are supposed to count down. You can't even stereotype right.

[MichiganVote]

16. I am? Ok, 6..4..3..2..um what's next?

[morningfog]

17. You're still doing it wrong.

[MichiganVote]

23. So it seems. Who knew I could be so stupid.

[morningfog]

24. We all do now.

[MichiganVote]

25. And the world will no doubt be a better place for it.

[flamingdem]

13. There was a huge blackout in the 1960s that I remember

and there was a lot of looting, but things have changed..

[LiberalElite]

18. You're living in a 1970's time warp

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. ConEd cut the power to Lower Manhattan a few hours ago

To protect systems underground so they can get them back online faster.

[cantbeserious]

3. Earthcam Shows Times Square All Lit Up

http://aws1.earthcam.com/?c=tsstreet

[Chorophyll]

4. Con Edison took a portion of lower Manhattan offline intentionally.

A lot of their equipment is underground. Shutting off is supposed to mitigate the water damage; make it easier to get everything up and running again.

I'll try to find a link.

ETA: link. Not great, but still, a link. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/29/us-storm-sandy-conedison-idUSBRE89S1CP20121029

[mia]

15. 9:19 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/28/nyregion/nyt-webcam.html?smid=tw-nytimes

[FrodosPet]

26. A BIG area on the right side of the pic is still dark at 11:46 pm

Not sure how much, if any, is residential, but it looks like several square blocks at least.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. They de energized large sections of the grid ahead of the flooding

Of MTA tunnels.