Monday, October 29, 2012

Avenue C flooding; word of Con Ed transformer explosion

Water is rushing down Avenue C according to multiple residents... Here's is East Seventh Street and Avenue C...


Via ‏@nsj806

And we witnessed that flashing light and explosion... people on Avenue C said that a Con Ed transformer blew, though the green light was witnessed south of the substation... Car alarms blaring from East Seventh Street to East 14th Street... lights flickering...
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26 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 8:25 PM

    Saw the sky light up a few times, crazy green flash... This shit is officially getting real...

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  2. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 8:27 PM

    Just had the power flicker off for a few seconds then back on in our building on East 6th Street...

    - East Village Slav

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  3. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM

    I THOUGHT I saw the glow of an explosion!

    I was sitting here on Allen between Stanton and Rivington facing east. I saw a strange bluish glow in the sky in the distance. It did NOT look like lightning but an explosion. It lasted a good four seconds. It had to be the explosion!!

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  4. Piccolo PosroOctober 29, 2012 at 8:39 PM

    how high is the water on C ???

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  5. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 8:41 PM

    Was looking out the window when that happened... I am at 9th and a and it came from directly behind the big industrial building with the 4 smoke stacks on 14th...

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  6. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 8:46 PM

    No power at 5th st btwn 1st and 2nd. Related?

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  7. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 8:48 PM

    No power on 5th street btwn 1st and 2nd.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 8:53 PM

    No power at all in block of 3rd and A

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  9. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 9:00 PM

    Friends on 10th between 1st and A just lost power. Friend on 23rd and 3rd just lost power. Friends at 13th and B heading West for fear of rising water.

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  10. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 9:04 PM

    Power is now out on avenue D. Total darkness. Lots of cops.

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  11. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 9:04 PM

    Heard a noise and saw green light to the east- just after 8:30. We're at 1st and St Marks. Lost power a few minutes later.

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  12. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 9:10 PM

    Power, even emergency lights, out here at 150 7th. Those emergency lights didn't go out even for the August blackout few years ago.

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  13. BTOctober 29, 2012 at 9:45 PM

    9:43pm - Con Ed reporting that the substation at 14th street is currently offline. (You heard it hear first with the explosion reports!). Many are without power because of this substation going offline.

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  14. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 10:14 PM

    video from Brooklyn of Con Ed plant at 14th street blowing:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ

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  15. kimOctober 29, 2012 at 10:37 PM

    Hope everyone is alright. I'm getting cabin fever...I need to get out! Sandy, go away!

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  16. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 10:47 PM

    Oh I can assure you a transformer exploded at the 14th St Con Ed plant. It blew twice, and the 2nd time is when we lost power. Don't know why they're not saying anything about it on 1010 wins! The Con Ed spokesperson was interviewed over an hour later, and when asked about the explosion he said he'd heard something on Franklin St had blown, causing the power outage. No way he didn't know about the straight up EXPLOSION over here!

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  17. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 10:50 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqYZ433TeQ&feature=player_embedded

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  18. Brooke YoungOctober 29, 2012 at 11:06 PM

    thank you so much for posting SOMETHING! i went to my boyfriend's on the UWS, and the news has really done the neighborhoods surrounding the Battery injustice. Absolutely no news about the 14th st and FDR ConEd station blow. Hi guys, we are important too!

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  19. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 11:12 PM

    Hello? Hello? Anyone left in the EV?

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  20. AnonymousOctober 29, 2012 at 11:40 PM

    Glass walls from the top floor terrace at the hideous Standard East hotel on E.5th st. crashed onto the roof of 207 E.5th st. and metal crashed into the courtyard of 207. Watch they just replace the glass on the terrace and don't do anything about an extremely dangerous design flaw.

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  21. jccOctober 30, 2012 at 8:54 AM

    does anyone know if flood is receding from avenue C? is it flooded ave D? is it safe to walk?

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  22. DrBOPOctober 30, 2012 at 4:34 PM

    I'm gittin' a lil' ascared heah!

    EVG.....hope you and yours and everybody's are high and dry.



    DAMN that Springsteen......damn him to hell:+)

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  23. AnonymousOctober 31, 2012 at 10:18 AM

    Hope everything is ok EV Grieve! Come back soon!

    Here is a video of that transformer getting blown.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4gtNgauQlIE

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  24. AnonymousOctober 31, 2012 at 12:11 PM

    anyone in alphabet city get power back? i had no cell reception or power yesterday so i left to work.

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  25. AnonymousOctober 31, 2012 at 2:54 PM

    No power. EVGrieve I trekked up to Midtown WEST to check on you! Ugh... Midtown West...

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  26. AnonymousOctober 31, 2012 at 6:19 PM

    How do we find out what that explosion was really caused by? Or will we never know? I saw it, it was not just from water. No way.

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