Detroit Hit With City-Wide Power Outage

by JASmius



The term "liberalism runs everything into the ground" is not hyperbole, it is stone-cold fact:

Power is slowly being restored Tuesday afternoon after a widespread outage caused evacuations of buildings throughout the downtown, including Joe Louis Arena, Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, the Detroit Institute of Arts and some buildings at Wayne State University. According to Detroit Press Office shortly before noon: “The city’s public lighting grid suffered a major cable failure that has caused the entire grid to lose power at approximately 10:30 this morning. 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.” “The city’s Public Lighting Department is working closely with DTE during this process.” DTE Energy Co. spokesman Scott Simons said “it looks like the entire Detroit Public Lighting system is down. Affecting about a hundred buildings, places like The Joe, Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, fire stations, schools. We were notified about 10:30 a.m. We’re working with them to help resolve the situation. We’ll help investigate the problem and make repairs. It’s too early yet to determine what has caused the shutdown.”

Six decades ago, Detroit was a bustling, industrial metropolis of over three million residents.  Then the Democrats took over and have run the city ever since.  Now it is bankrupt, a quarter its previous size, vast swaths of residential areas abandoned and collapsing into ruin, and the city cannot even keep its basic infrastructure from catastrophically failing.

Detroit has, in other words, been run into the ground.

Wanna see its future if its stubborn voting perversities aren't reversed (45 seconds in)?



After more than half a century of Democrat misrule, Detroit would be better off without people altogether.  Which ought to provide an indication of what it's going to take to restore the Motor City to its former glory, and how impossible to attain that dream will really be.