New York City Power Outage

[KingsX]

New York power outage knocks out subways, businesses, elevators

July 13 at 8:32 PM

NEW YORK — Authorities say a transformer fire caused a power outage in Manhattan and left businesses without electricity, elevators stuck and subway cars stalled.

The New York Fire Department said the fire started at West 64th Street and West End Avenue and affected at least 38,000 customers as of 8 p.m. Saturday.

Power reportedly went out early Saturday evening at much of Rockefeller Center and reached the Upper West Side.

A diner on Broadway at West 69th Street lost its lights, as did other surrounding businesses.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority tweeted that there were outages at various underground stations. The MTA is working with Con Edison to determine the cause.

Con Edison did not immediately respond to phone messages, and it was not clear how far the outages reached.

The outage comes on the anniversary of the 1977 New York City outage that left most of the city without power. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...3e9_story.html

[KingsX]

Ironically, a few days ago there was a power station fire near Moscow, Russia.


Major Fire Consumes Electricity Generating Power Station in Moscow Region

https://sputniknews.com/russia/20190...moscow-region/

[Pastor Guest]

The '77 blackout, 42 years ago to the day, gave criminals the excuse for violence and looting.

[PatDaly]

38,000 customers?

Sounds like the terrible Hurricane hitting right now.

Hell they don't get excited around here until way more than 38,000 customers are without power........

[Lenno]

61K addresses WO power now due to a 'manhole fire'

Now 73K addresses six networks down

[KingsX]

Live coverage on FOX news.

[KingsX]

Sabotage ??


Con Ed can’t explain what caused the Manhattan blackout




July 14, 2019

" Con Edison has yet to figure out why a large swath of Manhattan’s West Side was plunged into darkness by the blackout that lasted more than five hours on Saturday night.

In a statement released late Sunday morning, the power company said it “will be conducting a diligent and vigorous investigation to determine the root cause of the incident.”

“Over the next several days and weeks, our engineers and planners will carefully examine the data and equipment performance relating to this event, and will share our findings with regulators and the public,” the company said.

Con Ed spokesman Alfonso Quiroz blamed the blackout on a “disruption on the transmission side” of the company’s power grid.

Con Ed’s overhead transmission lines carry 438,000 volts of electricity to substations where the power is lowered to about 13,000 volts before being distributed to homes and businesses, he said.

Officials initially suspected a manhole fire that affected an underground transformer, but Quiroz said there’s “no evidence of a fire at this point.”

The blackout stranded people on subway trains and elevators, and forced the evacuation of Madison Square Garden and cancellation of Broadway shows.

It struck on the 42nd anniversary of a massive power outage in 1977 that affected the entire city and sparked looting, robberies and other mayhem.

Saturday night’s incident also occurred while Mayor Bill de Blasio was campaigning in Waterloo, Iowa, as part of his long-shot presidential bid.

Con Ed has said a serious of outages that began before 7 p.m. Saturday cut power to 73,000 customers served by six electrical networks on Manhattan’s West Side.

The affected area stretched from West 30th Street to West 72nd street, and from the Hudson River to Fifth Avenue. "

https://nypost.com/2019/07/14/con-ed...ttan-blackout/

[KingsX]

Interesting timing... coincidence or ??

ICE raids begin in NYC late Saturday into early morning hours on Sunday.


ICE deportation raids underway in New York City,
'number of jurisdictions,' official says

" A nationwide crackdown to apprehend thousands of illegal immigrants across the country began late Saturday in the nation's largest city and several other places, according to an official... The ICE raids began late Saturday and into the early morning hours on Sunday in "a number of jurisdictions," not just New York City, a senior administration official confirmed to Fox News."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-depor...gin-nationwide

[KingsX]

EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage

July 14, 2019

Galileo, the EU's global navigation satellite system, has been down for four days, since July 11, following a mysterious outage. All Galileo satellites are still non-operational, at the time of writing.

According to a service status page, 24 of the 26 Galileo satellites are listed as "not usable," while the other two are listing a status of "testing," which also means they're not ready for real-world usage.

The European GNSS Agency (GSA), the organization in charge of Galileo, has not published any information in regards to the root of the outage, which began four days ago, on Thursday, July 11.

On that day, the GSA published an advisory on its website alerting companies and government agencies employing the Galileo system that satellite signals have degraded and they "may not be available nor meet the minimum performance levels."

The agency warned that the Galileo system "should be employed at users' own risk."

The GSA published a more dire warning on Saturday, July 13, when it said that Galileo was experiencing a full-service outage and that "signals are not to be used."

At the time of writing, the service is nearing 100 hours of downtime.

The system going down forced the Galileo's userbase (government agencies and private companies) to switch to alternatives.

The Galileo satellite system was launched in 2016 and was funded by the EU as an alternative to the US Air Force's Global Position System (GPS) and the Russian government's GLONASS.

It is provided under both free and commercial offerings and is widely used by governments agencies and private companies for navigation and search and rescue operations.

Because it's provided for free, it is also widely used by the private tech sector and by most of the world's academia.

The downtime also comes after widespread GPS outages were reported across Israel, Iran, Iraq, and Syria at the end of June. Israeli media blamed the downtime on Russian interference, rather than a technical problem. "

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/art...erious-outage/

[Pastor Guest]

38,000 customers?

Sounds like the terrible Hurricane hitting right now.

Hell they don't get excited around here until way more than 38,000 customers are without power........

I imagine there are a lot of excited people in NYC right now. I would be a little excited too if I was stuck in NYC, in the dark and unarmed.