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In reply to the discussion: Just sickening. "Emergency Manager" in Detroit caused blackout during heatwave to teach a lesson.... [View all]etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)The Detroit Board of Lighting supplies power to a comparatively small amount of the City. Most of the citizens receive their power from DTE.
The event was a pain in the @ss downtown. I was personally 'inconvenienced' (which is what it was "an inconvenience" .
I keep posting all over this thread, because the events that occurred are not exactly as portrayed by the article. The impression of the article is the city (the entire city/ large swaths of the city) were impact. this is simply not true. The average Detroiter was not impacted unless they were working or doing business with very specific institutional customers of the Detroit Lighting Board.
There are so many legitimate complaints about Orr gutting the city ... this isn't one of them