Queens NY heads - explosion @ Con Ed plant in Queens (reported in Astoria)
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I'm in the Bronx near Yankee stadium (7 miles away) and it looked like daylight outside my window. I am still waiting for them to explain (in full detail) the blue light in the sky. People saw that shit in Jersey. The only time I've noticed reflections of exploding light at that type of distance are during the Macy's 4th of July fireworks display. I'm going with the conspiracists on this one.
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Exactly what my bro said... Skyline is his most hated movie ever and yet he still have skyline 2 a chance and said it wasn't bad(especially that it had raid redemption cats in there).... Still haven't seen none of the skylines
Im about to go to bgol cinema and see whats poppin
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You dropped very serious jewels consistently really made me think and rethink
Peace and much success in the new year.
Con Ed: It Wasn't A Transformer Explosion, An 'Electrical Fault' Just Caused The Air To Catch Fire
BY NEIL DEMAUSE IN NEWS ON DEC 28, 2018 1:58 PM
Now that everyone in New York has been told that last night's spectacular light show over Astoria was not due to an alien invasion but rather a Con Ed transformer explosion, Con Ed would like you to know: It was not a transformer, and it didn't explode. Rather:
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Con Edison
✔@ConEdison
https://twitter.com/ConEdison/status/1078663361326403584
Last night’s electrical fault caused a sustained electrical arc flash & transmission disturbance. There were no injuries and all the power lines serving the area are stable. We apologize for the disruption to customers. Photo: Wall Street Journal. #Queens #Astoria
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An "arc flash" is a short circuit where electricity jumps a gap between two parts of a circuit, causing the mother of all sparks to, in essence, set the air on fire. (The air technically ionizes, having its electrons forcefully stripped off of its atoms, but if by "on fire" you mean "gets superhot and creates a bright light" then you're within poetic license to call it "on fire.")
An arc flash is different from a transformer explosion in that no transformers are harmed in its making, but similar in that they both involve an overloaded circuit sending electricity somewhere it really shouldn't go.
This kind of incident, it turns out, is a fairly common occurrence in the city, even if the results don't usually lead to quite such an impressive sky display:
Faults in electric equipment are relatively common: According to a Popular Mechanics post that it continually updates every time one of these things explodes, about 35 transformers alone fail every year in the city, though most of them don't catch fire or explode.
At least Con Ed can be proud that this time, unlike in 2006, it figured out the problem right away and fixed it before needing to go around handing out bags of ice. Thank goodness for small favors.
BY NEIL DEMAUSE IN NEWS ON DEC 28, 2018 1:58 PM
Now that everyone in New York has been told that last night's spectacular light show over Astoria was not due to an alien invasion but rather a Con Ed transformer explosion, Con Ed would like you to know: It was not a transformer, and it didn't explode. Rather:
View image on Twitter
Con Edison
✔@ConEdison
https://twitter.com/ConEdison/status/1078663361326403584
Last night’s electrical fault caused a sustained electrical arc flash & transmission disturbance. There were no injuries and all the power lines serving the area are stable. We apologize for the disruption to customers. Photo: Wall Street Journal. #Queens #Astoria
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An "arc flash" is a short circuit where electricity jumps a gap between two parts of a circuit, causing the mother of all sparks to, in essence, set the air on fire. (The air technically ionizes, having its electrons forcefully stripped off of its atoms, but if by "on fire" you mean "gets superhot and creates a bright light" then you're within poetic license to call it "on fire.")
An arc flash is different from a transformer explosion in that no transformers are harmed in its making, but similar in that they both involve an overloaded circuit sending electricity somewhere it really shouldn't go.
This kind of incident, it turns out, is a fairly common occurrence in the city, even if the results don't usually lead to quite such an impressive sky display:
- In October 2017, a transformer on Cherry Street blew up with enough force that residents of neighboring Two Bridges apartments said they felt their buildings shake, though no power outages were reported.
- In May 2015, an apparent lightning strike caused a fire that led a transformer on Staten Island to explode, creating a power surge that knocked down a library wall at St. John's University's nearby campus.
- In January 2014, a transformer under Sixth Avenue in midtown blew up after being shorted out by salt and melting snow, causing some impressive (orange) flames and leading to the evacuation of a nearby building.
- Most famously, rising floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 led to a massive explosion at Con Ed's power plant at 14th Street and the East River, shutting down electrical service to nearly all of lower Manhattan and creating a pretty impressive blue flashof its own (though many New Yorkers were too busy fleeing rising seas to notice at the time).
- In July 2006, a series of cable failures in Astoria led remaining power cables — and, yes, transformers — to fail and catch fire, leading to a weeks-long blackout to much of northwestern Queens.
- In July 1977, the massive Ravenswood 3 power plant on the East River waterfront in Long Island City shut down under a power surge caused by a pair of upstate lightning strikes, which had caused a (wait for it) transformer near Indian Point to explode. The resulting citywide blackout entered New York legend.
Faults in electric equipment are relatively common: According to a Popular Mechanics post that it continually updates every time one of these things explodes, about 35 transformers alone fail every year in the city, though most of them don't catch fire or explode.
At least Con Ed can be proud that this time, unlike in 2006, it figured out the problem right away and fixed it before needing to go around handing out bags of ice. Thank goodness for small favors.
No doubt and you do the same... Glad to hear my words helped somebody
Con Ed: It Wasn't A Transformer Explosion, An 'Electrical Fault' Just Caused The Air To Catch Fire
BY NEIL DEMAUSE IN NEWS ON DEC 28, 2018 1:58 PM
Now that everyone in New York has been told that last night's spectacular light show over Astoria was not due to an alien invasion but rather a Con Ed transformer explosion, Con Ed would like you to know: It was not a transformer, and it didn't explode. Rather:
View image on Twitter
Con Edison
✔@ConEdison
Last night’s electrical fault caused a sustained electrical arc flash & transmission disturbance. There were no injuries and all the power lines serving the area are stable. We apologize for the disruption to customers. Photo: Wall Street Journal. #Queens #Astoria
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9:46 AM - Dec 28, 2018
159 people are talking about this
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An "arc flash" is a short circuit where electricity jumps a gap between two parts of a circuit, causing the mother of all sparks to, in essence, set the air on fire. (The air technically ionizes, having its electrons forcefully stripped off of its atoms, but if by "on fire" you mean "gets superhot and creates a bright light" then you're within poetic license to call it "on fire.")
An arc flash is different from a transformer explosion in that no transformers are harmed in its making, but similar in that they both involve an overloaded circuit sending electricity somewhere it really shouldn't go.
This kind of incident, it turns out, is a fairly common occurrence in the city, even if the results don't usually lead to quite such an impressive sky display:
- In October 2017, a transformer on Cherry Street blew up with enough force that residents of neighboring Two Bridges apartments said they felt their buildings shake, though no power outages were reported.
- In May 2015, an apparent lightning strike caused a fire that led a transformer on Staten Island to explode, creating a power surge that knocked down a library wall at St. John's University's nearby campus.
- In January 2014, a transformer under Sixth Avenue in midtown blew up after being shorted out by salt and melting snow, causing some impressive (orange) flames and leading to the evacuation of a nearby building.
- Most famously, rising floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 led to a massive explosion at Con Ed's power plant at 14th Street and the East River, shutting down electrical service to nearly all of lower Manhattan and creating a pretty impressive blue flashof its own (though many New Yorkers were too busy fleeing rising seas to notice at the time).
- In July 2006, a series of cable failures in Astoria led remaining power cables — and, yes, transformers — to fail and catch fire, leading to a weeks-long blackout to much of northwestern Queens.
- In July 1977, the massive Ravenswood 3 power plant on the East River waterfront in Long Island City shut down under a power surge caused by a pair of upstate lightning strikes, which had caused a (wait for it) transformer near Indian Point to explode. The resulting citywide blackout entered New York legend.
Faults in electric equipment are relatively common: According to a Popular Mechanics post that it continually updates every time one of these things explodes, about 35 transformers alone fail every year in the city, though most of them don't catch fire or explode.
At least Con Ed can be proud that this time, unlike in 2006, it figured out the problem right away and fixed it before needing to go around handing out bags of ice. Thank goodness for small favors.
Sounds silly but I thought about the first Iron Man when I watched that clip. The arc reactor exploded, Jeff Bridges fell into the base of the blast and the emissioned energetic exploded into the night sky crackling with power. I said this to wifey and she just shook her head and laughed. Matter fact, so many movies doing the big floating lights in the sky, we tend to forget the real life shit its based on.
Crazy shit. I’m glad y’all all safe up there in NY.
oNE
ahahahhaha lmaooooooo *fucking dead*