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Username: Designut
Post Number: 94
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 8:15 pm: |    |
For the last three nights, the street lights on Woodward in Midtown have been out. I assure you I'm not sensationalizing a few burned out lights on my block, or anything like that. I mean literally every light south of Warren is out, and from what I can tell from my vantage point at Woodward and Garfield, the darkness extends to at least Charlotte or Temple (possibly even the freeway/downtown).
Aside from from being eerily dark and, during the late hours, seeming even more like a ghost town than usual, this is definately a public safety issue. (I can't stress enough how unbelievably dark it really is without those lights on)
So what's the deal? How is it that such a significant portion of Detroit's main thoroughfare can sit in complete darkness for three nights in a row? Did Detroit forget to pay its electric bill? |
Jimaz
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Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 777
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 8:29 pm: | |
Scrappers? |
Designut
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Username: Designut
Post Number: 95
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 8:34 pm: | |
lol - the thought occurred to me too...thats alotta copper! |
Zephyrprocess
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Username: Zephyrprocess
Post Number: 91
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 10:46 pm: | |
Yup--I left my office this evening about the same time Designut was posting and the streetlights along Canfield were out as well. |
Gravitymachine
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Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1350
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 8:37 am: | |
looks like woodward is up on the double, super-secret rolling blackout list |
Dabirch
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Username: Dabirch
Post Number: 1915
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 10:29 am: | |
Will the last one left in Detroit please turn out the lights?
Thanks... |