Is There Something Behind the Power Outage in Washington DC?

To: Kartographer

If the government declares something is or was not, it usually is or was.

21 posted on 04/10/2015 1:14:07 PM PDT by onedoug

IIRC, some buildings only suffered *partial* blackouts.

22 posted on 04/10/2015 1:22:19 PM PDT by txhurl

23 posted on 04/10/2015 1:32:46 PM PDT by CGASMIA68

24 posted on 04/10/2015 1:40:18 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)

25 posted on 04/10/2015 1:40:50 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)

Have a good friend who works for SEMCO and knows what happened. SEMCO is in the distribution business, they do not generate any power.

A 203kv line from PEPCO came into one of their substations and actually melted one of it’s insulators. The line fell and hit one of the circuit breakers.

26 posted on 04/10/2015 1:41:54 PM PDT by helper

Thanks.....Sounds reasonable.
Tin Foil Hard Hat Off

27 posted on 04/10/2015 1:53:05 PM PDT by CGASMIA68

To: Disambiguator

"Is There Something Behind the Power Outage in Washington DC?"

"My guess would be a lack of electrical current due to some kind of interruption."
=============================================================

:-)

Yes, and the top executives of the rapid response team were able to determine that pretty quickly (after an emergency, three-hour, high-level brainstorming session in their think tank), when they discovered that all their appliances and other plug-in electric/electronic gizmos were not functioning in the exact same way they were before the "lack of electrical current due to some kind of interruption" overtook them.

(And, furthermore, President B-O no longer was able to know what was going on in the world, as his TV was not working as it had in the past, and he could not blab about anything either, as his teleprompter was not working as it had in the past before the interruption transpired, telling him what to say.)

(By the way, remember these guys and this story about them praying at the Episcopal National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. a while back?)

"UAE Designates Islamic Group That Hosted National Cathedral Prayers as Terrorist Organization"

(I wonder how many of them carry an extra pair of wire cutters under their Muslim robes.)

28 posted on 04/10/2015 2:12:19 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)

Never seen an answer to that. I saw a photo of a crew
working on a transmission line.

29 posted on 04/10/2015 2:58:33 PM PDT by deport

bummer, I thought it was a way to halt the hackers from getting anymore info.

30 posted on 04/10/2015 3:17:41 PM PDT by huldah1776

Well, there goes my ISIS conspiracy theory.

31 posted on 04/10/2015 3:39:43 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012

To: Kartographer

Martin, it is an imperfect world. Sometimes bolts fall out.

32 posted on 04/10/2015 4:36:19 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)

Truly.

Besides, this didn’t last long, did it? I left the area just as it happened, in fact.

If they got the power up that fast, it wasn’t that big a deal.

Give it a rest, tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists.

33 posted on 04/10/2015 5:38:31 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)

How would that be? Most of our power is nuclear. Thank God.

34 posted on 04/10/2015 5:42:34 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)

Elim Garak: "I believe in coincidences, coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences." Star Trek Deep Space Nine

35 posted on 04/10/2015 5:50:27 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794