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Just before midnight on Thursday (Dec. 14), New Yorkers noticed their lights suddenly flickering for no reason, and while many dismissed it as something in their home going awry, it turns out the problem was much bigger than anyone had realized .
According the gothamist, a small explosion at a Con Edison substation in Brooklyn, New York, was responsible for flickering lights in the boroughs. Although some homes experienced only a minor inconvenience, many other neighborhoods suffered power outages for a few seconds before power was restored. That must have been scary for residents who don't know if it was 2003 all over again where New York and other states in the Northeast went dark for an entire day.
Gothamist References:
Con Edison blamed a “high-voltage transmission line fault” for the five- or 10-second outage that residents noticed shortly before midnight.
“Our crews are investigating and making the necessary repairs,” the announcement states.
NYPD officials said Con Edison workers were restoring a transmission line at a substation on John Street in DUMBO when an outage occurred and caused a power surge.
No injuries were reported and officials said the brief outage that followed did not disrupt essential services at hospitals.
Fortunately, no one was injured in the Con Edison explosion. Some people, however, found themselves stuck in elevators at the time. Thank God for the fire department that handled these situations.
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