The financial capital of the country, Mumbai, witnessed a massive power outage this morning that brought the city to halt. Confirming the news, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) tweeted that the electric supply is interrupted due to incoming electricity failure.
The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure.
Inconvenience is regretted.— BEST Electricity (@myBESTElectric) October 12, 2020
According to The Indian Express Juhu, Andheri, Mira Road, Navi Mumbai, Thane, and Panvel were among the worst affected areas. Local train services were also temporarily suspended in some areas.
#WATCH Public announcement about the temporary suspension of local train services being made at #Mumbai Central Railway Station following power grid failure
BMC says, "It will take 45 minutes to 1 hour to restore the power supply." pic.twitter.com/YZGLM4ktL3
— ANI (@ANI) October 12, 2020
The Western Railway informed through a statement, “Mumbai Suburban trains on CR held up due to grid failure. We will update ASAP. Kindly bear with us.” It further added, “However, power supply, from MSETCL is available at Vasai Road and it has been extended to work essential suburban trains between Borivali and Virar section.” The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) reportedly said that it will take another “45 min to 1 hr to restore the supply”.
Due to power supply failure in Mumbai region, residents of Mumbai are requested to call on 022-22694727, 022-226947725 and 022-22704403 in case of emergencies.#BMCUpdates
— माझी Mumbai, आपली BMC (@mybmc) October 12, 2020
Big B also tweeted about the #MumbaiBlackout.
T 3688 – Entire city in power outage .. somehow managing this message .. keep calm all shall be well ..
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) October 12, 2020
Soon #powercut started trending online with people expressing their frustration. Some even took a ‘chill-pill’ and joked about the situation:
Oh stop looking at the skies. Aliens aren't landing. Bane is taking over Mumbai. WHERE IS BATMAN #powercut
— Anupam Gupta (@b50) October 12, 2020
Uh! #PowerCut is because of incoming electricity failure it seems.
Sounds a bit like "This flight is delayed due to the late arrival of the incoming flight". Or, "We lost the match because we scored less runs than the opposition".
# https://t.co/V2smcUv8WX— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) October 12, 2020
Miss the early days of the pandemic when we still had electricity.
— Sahil Rizwan (@SahilRiz) October 12, 2020
Mumbaikars after experiencing #powercut : pic.twitter.com/EYSBg34Jbt
— Dev Kumar (@DeeKay2310) October 12, 2020
Mumbaikars outraging over Electricity #Powercut
UP guy: pic.twitter.com/NW8R7eWPZy— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) October 12, 2020
Mumbaikars watching other cities having electricity pic.twitter.com/VoqNJU7gNm
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) October 12, 2020
Meanwhile in Mumbai 😂#powercut
pic.twitter.com/p8i3WtOqgQ— Rahul Prajapati (@RahulReply) October 12, 2020
Today I realized wifi se zada fan band hone pe dukh hota he 💀#powercut #blackout
— Ruchil (@onenemessis) October 12, 2020
South bombay Girls after facing #powercut for the first time ever… pic.twitter.com/G9XMMfr3mW
— Ȑ̫̰͍ͭa̤̩͊̌̑h͎̳̲̒ͫû̑͋̐́l̯̾ͩͣͭ (@Rahulismm) October 12, 2020
#powercut in Mumbai trending on twitter
Meanwhile Electricity Company : pic.twitter.com/DM0018rYUX
— Mr. Stark (@Mr_Stark_) October 12, 2020
#powercut #poweroutage #mumbaipowercut
*October heat begins*
Mumbai Electricity: pic.twitter.com/HwiazKwcwY— Nitish Parab (@nitish08) October 12, 2020
#powercut in whole mumbai
Indians be like: pic.twitter.com/ZJb4xHajtd
— 🇮🇳🇮🇳 Mukesh💞❣️🖤Huge Salute Armed Forces 🇮🇳 (@LoveIndianNavy) October 12, 2020
People in Mumbai: oh no! There’s a #powercut what’re we supposed to do now?!??
People in Delhi: pic.twitter.com/vDT12oYozi
— Afifa 🐉 (@__affi__) October 12, 2020
No Power in Mumbai.
WFH people be like: pic.twitter.com/tH6y2jGfoC
— SwatKat 💯 fb (@SwatKat77) October 12, 2020
Finally, Mumbai is experiencing what the rest of India goes through. 😁 #PowerCut
— That Goan Guy (@schmmuck) October 12, 2020
While people are stranded at railway stations and the officials are working to restore the power outage in the affected areas, the good news is that Monday meetings are canceled. Yay!