Too Long; Didn't Read
On the morning of December 2nd 2014 the power went out for ~100 buildings in downtown Detroit. People were stuck in elevators and railcars. Flights were grounded as the city airport also suffered from the outage. Traffic lights stopped working. A few hospitals were without electricity leaving patients plugged to devices that weren’t functioning as required. All city fire stations were without power. <strong>The Wayne county jail (with its own backup power) kept running as usual</strong>. A spokesman for the Mayor said the outage was ‘<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/12/02/major-power-outage-sweeps-through-downtown-detroit/?utm_term=.c47c905ec63f" target="_blank"><em>caused by extreme heat, cable failure and routine maintenance — all combining causing system overload</em></a>. System shock starting in one location leading to total system failure.