Cars blast through out of order traffic lights caused by major storm

Are cars supposed to treat malfunctioning lights as stop signs?

What are traffic laws when a stop light is out?

This video was recorded after a major August 2020 storm in New England.

Hurricane Isaias cut power to 2.8 million homes and businesses along the East Coast and resulted in the third worst blackout in Connecticut history.

One of the issues after a major blackout is that traffic control devices are part of that blackout.

These drivers speed through the out of order stop lights as if there were green.

What happens if another driver is thinking the same thing at that intersection.

This is a good recipe for a T-bone situation.