Hear the Roar of the Grid in the High Voltage Explosion that Lit Up NYC's Sky Last Night

The world is ending. The aliens are here. That's what some New York City residents thought last night when the sky over Queens lit up with a bizarre blue glow. For a few minutes, the eerie, flickering light was bright as day. The electric blue hue of the light might give you a clue what really happened. As usual, it wasn't the apocalypse or an alien invasion: a high-voltage transformer at the Con Edison plant in Astoria broke down, unleashing a violent electrical arc.A resident named Chris Okada...