Mumbai Electricity Failure: Netizens flood social media with complaints, memes

Large parts of Mumbai reported major power outage on October 12 due to a technical failure. The interruption in power supply affected suburban local train services, operating only for essential workers at present due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a tweet, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) said, “The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure.”

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After the power outage reported in the financial capital, netizens flooded the social media platforms with posts. Hashtags like #powercut, #MumbaiPowerOutage and #MumbaiPowerCut started trending on Twitter.

People living in Mumbai are experiencing Monday Blacks instead of Monday Blues. #powercut

— Memesahaab MI (@memesahaab) October 12, 2020

Literally Anything is Possible in 2020! #MumbaiPowerOutage @myBESTElectric @TataPower

— Diksha gaikwad (@dikshagaikwad97) October 12, 2020

Walking down the stairs 27 floors, was not that bad I considered it as an evacuation drill.#MumbaiPowerOutage #MumbaiPower

— Gautam Sehgal (@tweetbygautam) October 12, 2020

Mumbai is now Andheri nagari#powercut#Mumbaipic.twitter.com/HCEfcaJRIB

— Priya Jaiswal (@jaiswalpriyaa) October 12, 2020

Damn, this powercut. Now I’ll not be able to attend the meetings and online classes I was so very eager to attend on a Monday morning. #Mumbai #PowerCut pic.twitter.com/ylJyAAqtHC

— Adrian D’Souza (@itsadriandsouza) October 12, 2020

— Anand Vaidya (@OctaneTwisted) October 12, 2020

#powercut #gridfail

Now electricity in mumbai pic.twitter.com/jREn7j36aC

— Arushi Sharma (@meme_vaali_ldki) October 12, 2020

*Sudden #powercut in #mumbai*

South Bombay: Geez, what happened? OMG it’s already so hot.

Thane: pic.twitter.com/vVdW54GSdw

— MBA Memer (@mbamemer) October 12, 2020

#powercut

Mumbai people completely shocked because of power outage.

Meanwhile UP, Bihar, Rajasthan, MP, Delhi, Harayana --> pic.twitter.com/CogJaOBIrV

— Utkarsh Gupta (@PaneerMakhani) October 12, 2020

Mumbai is feeling like the rest of the India today! #PowerCut #MumbaiPowerOutage

— Harshdeep Singh (@_harshdeep) October 12, 2020

Multiple operators, including the state-run BEST, Adani Electricity and Tata Power supply power to the city.