live video downtown Houston power outage.

[Chrunch Houston]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/livenow?id=8946819

Big storm. There are buildings there, they are all dark.

 

[Omnis]

The power's out. What did you expect?

 

[Chrunch Houston]

The power's out. What did you expect?

It is not often that a major US city’s entire downtown looses power.

I should have grabbed a screenshot. Every one of those buildings were dark.

The event seems to be over now anyway so…

 

[BobK]

Don't tell me, let me guess. You've never seen a blackout before, right? An hour or two without power occasionally is almost routine in some places.

 

[Blitz24]

It is not often that a major US city’s entire downtown looses power.

I should have grabbed a screenshot. Every one of those buildings were dark.

The event seems to be over now anyway so…

Because multiple major US Cities have never lost power at the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
As others have said, its happened before. Also, that one happened due to a tree pretty much. Baltimore, New York, Toronto, Detroit and Cleveland and surrounding areas lost power. 55 million affected.

 

[dylansan]

Because multiple major US Cities have never lost power at the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
As others have said, its happened before. Also, that one happened due to a tree pretty much. Baltimore, New York, Toronto, Detroit and Cleveland and surrounding areas lost power. 55 million affected.

He said "not often", not "never".

Or is your point that it's not worth talking about things that have happened before?

 

[Blitz24]

He said "not often", not "never".

Or is your point that it's not worth talking about things that have happened before?

Its not really newsworthy to be discussing that a storm knocked out power for a short period of time.