Our office in the Keong Saik Road vicinity certainly wasn’t affected, but it seems like a massive blackout hit the central business district, leaving thousands of offices, retail stores, and restaurants without electrical power for about 34 minutes. Even the traffic lights went out.
Seems that there’s a blackout in the Raffles Place area. Power in our office at Market Street went out at around 340pm. Heard that the surrounding bldings and Lau Pa Sat are also affected. Traffic lights too. #rafflesplaceblackout #SGblackout
— Liang (@LimWuiLiang) June 1, 2018
WhoLe bloody CBD black out. LOL… Even the traffic lights
— 배새 🐤 (@notjasni) June 1, 2018
In a statement issued following the blackout, Singapore Power (SP) stated that 3,156 customers in parts of Raffles Quay, Robinson Road and Shenton Way were affected by a disruption to electricity supply around 2:40pm. SP officers were immediately deployed to the affected areas and managed to fully restore power within 34 minutes.
Those 34 minutes made for a slight scare for those working in high-rise office spaces — especially those who were in elevators when the power went out. The luckier ones who weren’t stranded in lifts had the opportunity to explore the stairwells and walk down dozens of floors.
Am stuck on 33rd floor, 77 Robinson in a major #powerfailure in Singapore’s #robinsonroad. Half hour and counting. Reports from others who say raffles place affected, people stuck in lift. #poweroutage #blackout
— Zubaidah Nazeer (@ZubNaz) June 1, 2018
There was a blackout in my office building in CBD area, had to walk down 28 floors of stairs to get to my meeting! Also check out my sweet sweet blackout selfie lol pic.twitter.com/ot7CCg8Aux
— Musical Houses (@musicalhouses) June 1, 2018
CBD area black out? Raffles place and the traffic lights around there aint working?? I am trapped in my office?? Can’t tap out????
— joos⚡🐍 solidarity (@cloudraws) June 1, 2018
Others took the chance to go for a post-lunch tea break. As you do.
Power outage in CBD. People seen ‘powering up’ with coffee and tea! #blackout #cbd pic.twitter.com/MutBaJzYE0
— El (@elxlee) June 1, 2018
So, Chinatown Point had a blackout.
My first hand experience of eating congee in the dark lol and I got a discount because the manager felt sorry about it 😂
Someone shouted Happy Birthday the moment the lights went out and I was like… so lame….
— ミン♪워나원 (@zhuangg) June 1, 2018
Told the office staff to go home when I found out several buildings were affected by the blackout. A few slipped out before the power came back on. You snooze you lose.
— gurmit singh (@gurms) June 1, 2018
We don’t know about you guys, but the blackout could be yet another indication of an incoming Kaiju attack — the huge crack that appeared on Adam Road this morning was the first sign.
If the the crack on adam road and cbd blackout aren’t a sign of the end times then I dunno what is #ApocalypseSG
— Tze Hern (@zhrent) June 1, 2018
