One Switch Leaves New York City in the Dark
Here is an except of Cracked.com’s “5 Tiny Mistakes That Lead To Huge Catastrophes”
My favorite being: One Switch Leaves New York City in the Dark
Apparently because a conEd operator hit a few switches out of order all of New York went dark for 25 hours in the middle of July with a serial killer on the loose.
Excerpt:
“After all was said and done, 1,616 stores were damaged, 1,037 fires were set, and 3,776 arrests were made. A Congressional study estimated the total damage to the New York City area at $300 million. Also, as a bizarre side effect: hip-hop was born. Seriously. The looting apparently resulted in the first access to DJ equipment for poor inner city youths, launching the movement.
In the aftermath of the blackout, ConEdison implemented changes to make sure the same problem never happened again (which it totally did in 2003). We’re assuming this involved something along the lines of a few sequentially ordered labels above those switches.”
5 Tiny Mistakes That Lead To Huge Catastrophes | Cracked.com
Tags: newyork, 1977, hip-hop, power outage
