14 DAY TRIAL // A series of explosions at the Con Edison Power Plant has left people in Manhattan in the dark as Hurricane Sandy swept the US East Coast. The video above, shot by an amateur, shows two such explosions.
Amid talk that it could be up to a week before power is back on in Manhattan, panic is spreading.
Those who heard the explosions and are, as a result, now in the dark, are tweeting their impressions and, obviously, no one is cracking jokes now.
“Huge explosion just rocked the East Village, everything went dark and I mean dark. #Sandy I'm now legit scared,” Bucky Turco writes on Twitter.
“Based on looking out my window, it appears that most of Manhattan south of Midtown may have lost power. Brooklyn still fine,” Mike Epstein says.
More from the reactions to the power outage in Manhattan here, at the Gothamist.
As we also reported just minutes ago, authorities are urging people to stay indoors.