Hour long power cut causes chaos at Bangkok shopping mall

 

 

Image: Sanook

 

An hour long power cut at a Bangkok shopping mall caused widespread disruption for shoppers and movie goers on Saturday.

 

Sanook reported that people were trapped in lifts during the outage which plunged the movie theatre, parking lot and food hall into darkness from approximately 3.30pm.

 

Sanook didn’t report the name of the mall but people posting to social media said the power cut occured at Siam Paragon.

 

 

Footage shared to social media showed a movie theatre at the mall in complete darkness.

 

The Metropolitan Electricity Authority said the outage was caused by a faulty transmitter, which knocked out power along the Rama 4 road and throughout the Pathumwan district. Power was restored at 4.54pm, the MEA said.

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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<deleted> don't have emergency lighting implemented ?

4 minutes ago, dahinni said:

<deleted> don't have emergency lighting implemented ?

What for? there must be a calamity of some sort before someone will arrange an investigation committee as to why, oh why, there wasn't any emergency lighting installed, This is the Thai way, die first, we fix later...

How terrible! Really, one full hour? How did they survive?

No doubt there will be an increase in the birth rate in the Bangkok Metro area in 9 months time.

34 minutes ago, Get Real said:

How terrible! Really, one full hour? How did they survive?

So people have also been reported to have spent some time "talking to each other".

If this happens in Paris they'll loot the whole mall...anything stolen during the chaos?

39 minutes ago, Thian said:

If this happens in Paris they'll loot the whole mall...anything stolen during the chaos?

Yes, the person deemed responsible lost face.

 

Outside of Bangkok this happens on a regular basis - and this was only one hour. Never see it in mentioned the the national press though.

 

Hiso TIT style. Even my puny condo has an emergency diesel generator for the lifts and common area lighting..

My God. An entire hour without snacks.

 

Oh, the humanity.

To be stuck in an elevator without any ac or fan and in complete darkness for an hour would be horrific. They turn into ovens within minutes. I was stuck in one in Bangkok for less than 20 minutes and it is a horrible experience. 

The lead of the article is the power was out for an hour at Siam Paragon.

 

But the detail down in the article claims power was out for that entire time through the entire Pathumwan area, which means a whole lot more malls and other places than just Paragon.

 

Meanwhile, as for Paragon, no mention of emergency lighting or backup generators????

 

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The Metropolitan Electricity Authority said the outage was caused by a faulty transmitter, which knocked out power along the Rama 4 road and throughout the Pathumwan district. Power was restored at 4.54pm, the MEA said.

 

Can you imagine the chaos and panic if all of Bangkok would lose power for a whole day?

8 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

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The Metropolitan Electricity Authority said the outage was caused by a faulty transmitter, which knocked out power along the Rama 4 road and throughout the Pathumwan district. Power was restored at 4.54pm, the MEA said.

Transmitter? I'm sure they meant transformer.

Must have been a smelling mistake.

 

3 minutes ago, jvs said:

Can you imagine the chaos and panic if all of Bangkok would lose power for a whole day?

 

5 minutes ago, jvs said:

Can you imagine the chaos and panic if all of Bangkok would lose power for a whole day?

I can imagine it a lot quieter.

 

22 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I can imagine it a lot quieter.

 

I think the opposite.

22 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I can imagine it a lot quieter.

 

I think the opposite.

34 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I can imagine it a lot quieter.

 

Whistles don't need electricity! 

From now on they will have an event on every Saturday under the motto: "Bright people shop in the dark". Wonder how many luxury articles they found missing after sunrise.

3 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

No doubt there will be an increase in the birth rate in the Bangkok Metro area in 9 months time.

So people have also been reported to have spent some time "talking to each other".

Doubt that. Probably even more took to their smartphones!

Power-cuts happen even to HISOs

But the amazing thing it appears Siam Paragon the "premier la de da hiso swanky posing  shopping paradise "does not have emergency generator to power lifts emergency lighting etc, even for Thailand i find it both surprising and disconcerting.

5 hours ago, dahinni said:

<deleted> don't have emergency lighting implemented ?

No need here, everybody carries his/her  mobile phone to light the way Ha Ha !

1 hour ago, jvs said:

Can you imagine the chaos and panic if all of Bangkok would lose power for a whole day?

Just imagine all the additional traffic accidents with traffic lights out.

Oh, wait, probably not.

Siam Paragon did have an emergency power backup about 2 years ago when I was there one late Friday afternoon 2 years ago and it all worked fine....I cant imagine that they would have disposed of it...many people here have assumed it was Siam Paragon whereas there are many shopping malls in the area...The owners of Siam Paragon are very very good operators of malls so until the actual name of the mall is released it may be a good idea to keep your slagging to yourself

8 hours ago, dahinni said:

<deleted> don't have emergency lighting implemented ?

 

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

What for? there must be a calamity of some sort before someone will arrange an investigation committee as to why, oh why, there wasn't any emergency lighting installed, This is the Thai way, die first, we fix later...

 

5 hours ago, kotsak said:

Hiso TIT style. Even my puny condo has an emergency diesel generator for the lifts and common area lighting..

 

4 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Meanwhile, as for Paragon, no mention of emergency lighting or backup generators????

From the video it is clear that the place was not in total darkness and there are many lights so why are so many bashers claiming that there was no emergency lighting when it wasn't mentioned in the OP?

5 hours ago, bluesofa said:

I can imagine it a lot quieter.

 

Not at the intersections.. can you imagine all the hooting & screaming as to who's got right of way !!

At least no one was injured, and all is well now...

 

Wait! Maybe they were trailing a new shopping experience, like the dining in the dark one in Bangkok. It could a world leader. Imagine the excitement when you get home with your purchases and see what you actually bought instead of what you thought you had. Brilliant.

 

http://www.dineinthedarkbangkok.com/

So it's a Real Drama to have a Power cut in Bangkok for 1 Hr,,,,, the rest of the country gets Power cuts for HRS at the time ,,,, there's no mention AT All And nothing is getting done about it,,, Same with water supply We are having water troubles now for 6 months Most times no water for 12 hrs than not even enough to have a shower Before it was a Perfect supply for 18 months Who Cares ,,, NO ONE,,,

9 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

No doubt there will be an increase in the birth rate in the Bangkok Metro area in 9 months time.

So people have also been reported to have spent some time "talking to each other".

This is fake news as the mobile network was unaffected. ?