Astoria Transformer Explosion/Fire 27DEC18 

That shit was so fucking wild.. electricity also dropped for a second right before it blew up..

And so begins the next 10 years of New York City based SciFi movie/writing material...

Best Jacob's ladder video on the net!

A friend saw it from Brooklyn, another from Jersey, and my brother saw it from the Lower East Side, shit was massive

It's like music to my ears! Sometimes I regret I live in Europe. Such things never happen here.

I live in whitestone and my lights TV and appliances did like a reset. Then my buddy in flushing calls me and said did you look outside. The blue lights were visible here. Holy crap I thought a meteor or an invasion! Lol

my PC turned off from Surge at the start, " this better be the end of the world" oh hi Gary

saw this from flushing, thought it was doomsday

I live 2 blocks away from it. Whole Astoria had their lights flickering.

that's one way to end 2018

Glad nobody was hurt (according to what I read), but this was fascinating to watch

I saw the sky light up here near Nassau County, also the outage hit my place too.

Pretty colors

Bright blue or white glare coming towards the camera, the temperature is above 7000K

was in the middle of my payday 2 game and i thought my pc just died

Transformers are pretty strong considering the power came back on after all that arcing

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Where's ElectroMan when you need 'em? New York is slacking on the super heros these days...

Saw this from Brooklyn. Thought either a movie was being filmed or some sort of electrical dtorm

What is wrong with meter and relay at so many utilities? This should have tripped offline long time ago.

i saw this shit to i thought the aliens came to take over the world

Slow the speed down to 0.25 and you get a totally different perspective - likewise when jacking the speed up to 2.0

well thats a lot of money there

I witnessed this from Jersey City

Did something on or in the lense burn? towards the end of the video, there's that smoking spot somewhat in the middle that seems to move with the camera

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Saw it from Manhattan.

I thought it was some alien shit and I was going to die. Like this is how the movies start where there’s a weird ass thing in the sky

It's just Spider-Man and Electro fighting. No big deal

any one here knows if this can cause radiation or something like that? that was the first thing that came through my head.

Explosion?I did not see any explosion Just a hv arc /pretty good by the way

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My question is what that alien looking thing dancing around the explosion

Who’s the one person that would dislike this🤔

Saw this from queens i through it was aliens 👽

so i just watched this video twice in a row from two different angles... one closer than the other... in the first one i noticed little blinking lights over the plant and thought it was reflecting from dudes camera... but after watchin it from this angle the blinking lights are in this one too. in the same exact places the other ones were.... theres somethin about this they didnt tell us about

i saw it to

Ohh shit we going to die.!!.....😭😭😭😭😭😭!

I suppose it being the 27th is irrelevant at this point, eh?

Were the Russians blamed yet by someone?