Was there a power outage at NYC's SoHo Apple Store?

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Was there a power outage there today? :confused: There was a fire at Con Ed today, and most of Mid to Downtown Manhattan had no power. It probably looked like an abandoned computer warehourse inside the dark, old looking store, with powerless comps everywhere. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />

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  • Reply 1 of 13
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    Should a broken in and taken the 17" iMac display with Jaguar



    ohhhh babY!
  • Reply 2 of 13
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    they dont have lights in the store... its all sunlight i belive... but if there was no power (complete blackout below 14th street) then no computers.. only thing people could buy are preferals and software... :/ they probably closed the store if there was a blackout...



    maybe they had generators?
  • Reply 3 of 13
    ...if there was a blackout, then they couldn't buy anything because the cash registers are run on electricity...
  • Reply 3 of 13
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    What? They don't have lights in the store?
  • Reply 5 of 13
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    [quote]Originally posted by Paul:

    <strong>they dont have lights in the store...</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Uh...no.
  • Reply 6 of 13
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Aren't the cash registers iMacs?
  • Reply 7 of 13
    stroszekstroszek Posts: 801member
    [quote]Originally posted by Eugene:

    <strong>



    Uh...no.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    what happens on dark rainy days? what happens in the winter when it gets dark early? did i not pick up the fact that you were just kidding?
  • Reply 8 of 13
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Spart:

    <strong>Aren't the cash registers iMacs?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yep.
  • Reply 9 of 13
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    I think Eugene meant, no, there are lights in the store. Apple made a big deal about the central skylight, hence Paul's comment. There have to be electric lights, though the skylight does bring a lot of natural light in (a very good thing).



    The Main area of the blackout was between 14th and Houston on the West Side. SoHo is below Houston (hence South of Houston), but that area had sporadic power though the day. The problem is fixed now, BTW.
  • Reply 10 of 13
    sebseb Posts: 676member
    I went by the store and although there wasn't any power they were still selling computers.



    Imagine that. They were selling computers and they couldn't even show people what they could do with them.



    [ 07-21-2002: Message edited by: seb ]</p>
  • Reply 11 of 13
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    apple got to show off the amazing battery life of their products, and according to MacMinute, made transactions with hand written receipts.



    Go apple!



    I wonder if they had training to do that? Like,"In the even of a power outage, show off amazing battery life of apple's portable computers!" <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
  • Reply 12 of 13
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Nebagakid:

    <strong>apple got to show off the amazing battery life of their products, and according to MacMinute, made transactions with hand written receipts.



    Go apple!



    I wonder if they had training to do that? Like,"In the even of a power outage, show off amazing battery life of apple's portable computers!" <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    That's really cool.
  • Reply 13 of 13
    <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/nyregion/21POWE.html"; target="_blank">Fire at Con Ed Disrupts Power in Manhattan</a>



    By ALAN FEUER



    An electrical transformer at a Consolidated Edison plant on the East River exploded in flames yesterday, knocking out power for nearly eight hours to a large swath of Lower Manhattan. Before electricity was restored early last night, about 63,500 customers were left without lights, air-conditioning and refrigeration on a warm summer day.

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