{"id":2332,"date":"2014-12-02T12:58:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T17:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2014-12-02T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T17:58:05","slug":"images-from-a-dark-detroit-major-cable-failure-sparks-widespread-power-outage-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2332","title":{"rendered":"Images From A Dark Detroit: &#8220;Major Cable Failure&#8221; Sparks Widespread Power Outage | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-12-02\/images-dark-detroit-major-cable-failure-sparks-widespread-power-outage\">Images From A Dark Detroit: &#8220;Major Cable Failure&#8221; Sparks Widespread Power Outage | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2013-09-11\/detroit-black-out-2013\">Just 15 months after Detroit&#8217;s Black Out 2013 debacle<\/a>, spokespeople for the city and DTE Energy confirmed at around 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday that most of Detroit\u2019s municipal grid is offline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>*DETROIT CITES &#8216;MAJOR CABLE FAILURE&#8217; FOR POWER OUTAGE<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>*DETROIT: OUTAGE IS AFFECTING ALL CUSTOMERS ON THE PLD GRID<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">The outage is preventing power from being delivered to police stations, schools, traffic lights and other city-run facilities and services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">According to Detroit Press Office shortly before noon:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"position: relative; font-style: italic; padding: 1em !important; margin: 1em !important 2em !important 1em !important 2em !important;\">\n<div class=\"quote_start\" style=\"border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #e9eff3; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: #e9eff3; bottom: 3em; left: 0px; min-height: 2em; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 95px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #e9eff3; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #e9eff3; bottom: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 2.3em; width: 95px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"width: inherit !important; display: block; margin: 0px !important;\"><strong>&#8220;The city&#8217;s public lighting grid suffered a major cable failure that has caused the entire grid to lose power at approximately 10:30 this morning.\u00a0<\/strong>The outage is affecting all customers on the PLD grid. We have isolated the issue and are working to restore power as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; color: #000000;\"><\/span>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images From A Dark Detroit: &#8220;Major Cable Failure&#8221; Sparks Widespread Power Outage | Zero Hedge. Just 15 months after Detroit&#8217;s Black Out 2013 debacle, spokespeople for the city and DTE Energy confirmed at around 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday that most of Detroit\u2019s municipal grid is offline: *DETROIT CITES &#8216;MAJOR CABLE FAILURE&#8217; FOR POWER [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[207,389,1574,1575],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-detroit","tag-grid-failure","tag-power-grid","tag-power-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}