Mysterious Statue of Liberty blackout occurs hours before Day Without A Woman protests
Without warning, lights at the Statue of Liberty went dark the evening before nationwide Day Without A Woman marches are scheduled. But rumors that the outage was in solidarity with protesters dwindled when the lights came back on less than an hour later.
The bizarre outage left people speculating whether the lights were shut off in solidarity with the planned demonstrations. So far the National Parks Service is yet to comment.
Statue of Liberty is dark. No one's quite sure why yet pic.twitter.com/HyIMGzTKGh
— Brendan McHugh (@McHugh) March 8, 2017
If someone's turned off the Statue of Liberty for a day without women, can we also go cover statues/paintings of Justice and Victory?
— Anna Williams (@lireavue) March 8, 2017
If the lights being out on the #statueofliberty represents #adaywithoutwomen then this kicks BUTT! #solidarity 🙌🏾🗽#developing
— Tala's Boutique (@TalasBoutique) March 8, 2017
Lady Liberty got the memo. On 3/8, we strike! #DayWithoutAWoman#StatueOfLiberty (Anyone know who this amazing artist is? Pls let us know!) pic.twitter.com/AGaHvk3gOj
— Women's March (@womensmarch) March 8, 2017
The EarthCam live stream captured the lights at the Statue of Liberty coming back on, after showing her cloaked in darkness, except for her crown and torch lights.
Lights are back on at the Statue of Liberty. #NYCpic.twitter.com/tTJk4Ck0oy
— Ann Nyberg (@AnnNyberg) March 8, 2017
