Chapter 209: Electricity (1) (1/2)
For any City, the electrical system is very important. If there is a City-wide power outage, there will be all sorts of harms caused by many unintended variables.
Nine years ago, there was a massive power failure accident in the Northeastern parts of the United States, eight midwest states, and the province of Ontario in Canada. According to the preliminary statistic, in New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Ottawa, Toronto and other major cities and their surrounding areas, fifty million people were affected. Of which, manufacturing, food and beverage, retail, as well as the aviation industry suffered the most. Most of the economic activity appeared to be stagnated. All of these directly or indirectly caused an economic loss of up to $30 billion.
And tonight, once again there were widespread power outages in Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadelphia, New York and other major cities.
Although the blackout was smaller than the one happened a few years ago, went major cities in the United States went into darkness, some abnormal sound rang out.
After one hour of the blackout, the residents living in the fifth avenue, New York were the first to hear the gunshots. Before those shooters were taken care of, a burst of even more unexpected sounds of explosions rang out.
Not just in New York, the residents in other cities affected by the outage have also heard the persistent gunshots and explosions.
In all major streets, many large stores were forced open, the ATMs were also pounded by mobs, but the jewelry stores were the favorite. In order to open the doors of the shops or stores, some even directly crashed cars into it.
No one knew why these people became like this. But a few people living not far from large Malls or banks saw that not long after the electricity went out, the ATMs in the malls suddenly exploded without any warning. After the explosions, the Mall doors were burst open, giving way to the flying cash from the exploded ATMs to scatter like leaves. Seeing all this cash, as well as free access to major shopping Malls, many people went crazy.
They began to frantically grab the cash on the ground or flock inside the Mall to steal precious commodities.
Not only that, as more and more shopping Malls with ATMs were burst open, the craziness spread among the crowds like an unknown virus. Not only people on the streets, even ordinary citizens ran out of their houses and joined the ranks of the robber. Some of the men, unsatisfied with the items that they robbed, began to hit other stores and shops.
Under this crazy herd mentality, more and more people began to participate in the destruction and looting.
In the dark environment, all of the looters have an illusion, that is, no one would recognize them. Thinking that their behaviors were reasonably concealed, the dark side of humanity began to rise to the surface.
In the end, the greedy crowds turned into mobs, damaging and looting stores and shops.
In addition to ordinary citizens, the gangsters who lived in the dark were like fishes in the water. Some people began to loot the gun store.
Men with guns started to rob ordinary people, or they just simply crashed cars into stores or use guns to break open the doors to loot more efficiently.
But before long, endless police vehicles gradually left the outside area and began to enter the inner city to suppress these people.
Constant roaring of sirens scared the ordinary looters; They immediately scattered to escape.
Under the guidance from the helicopter above, dozens of police vehicles successfully drove and laid siege hundreds of armed men.
“You have been surround, put down your arms and surrender immediately.” A police officer shouted through a megaphone from a helicopter above.
Looking at the numerous police vehicles flashing red and blue lights in front of them, the surrounded men began to be afraid. Although many of them were gang members or socially marginalized people, it did not mean that they are not afraid to die.