White House, State Department Lose Power Due To Major Outages

CBS News DC ^ | April 7, 2015 1:25 PM

[brownsfan]

“Maybe nothing bad will get done while power is out. Maybe this should be a permanent thing.”

Exactly what I thought when I heard about it.

[Uncle Miltie]

The Mullahs knew the power was out sometime ago.

[thackney]

Ironic that the power plant 2 miles form downtown Washington is COAL fired operated by PEPCO. Look it up its in Anacostia.

You mean the one that was shut down in 2012, then demolished?

http://www.anacostiaws.org/news/blog/demolition-pepco-benning-road-power-plant

http://www.anacostiaws.org/news/blog/update-demolition-pepco-benning-road-power-plant-pepco-energy-services

[fwdude]

Obama has a pen so let him write an Executive Order to make the lights go back on.

LOL!!! Too true!

[UCANSEE2]

Coincidence ?

AEP prepares to close 6 coal-fired plants in 4 states

[central_va]

I’ll bet O’Bastard had something to do with it.

[thackney]

...under pressure from the EPA, the District Department of the Environment (DDOE) is finally dealing with the six most toxic sites along the Anacostia, one of which is Pepco’s Benning Road power plant. On February 2, 2011, DDOE announced that it had reached a “consent decree” with Pepco that it believes will address the legacy of pollution at Benning Road...

http://www.cleanwateraction.org/feature/dc-strike-deal-benning-road-cleanup

[central_va]

Yep the Obama Admin at work.

[lacrew]

Remember this story, when a few years down the road we are told this outage deleted a bunch of Barry’s files.

[WayneS]

It astonishes me that the White House does not have a UPS in place.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“And these idiots don’t even have back-up power systems in their own buildings?”

Power was only out for 10 seconds in the building. That’s about how long it takes the emergency generators to spool up. The diesel engines have to get to a certain rpm before the generator kicks in.

[dfwgator]

“White House, State Department Lose Power”

If only the headline stopped there.

[old gringo]

mine was out 17 years.

[Gator113]

“Homeland Security officials believe an explosion at a SMECO power facility in southern Maryland caused the outages. They say there is no indication of terrorism behind the outages.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest says Homeland Security has “indicated they don’t currently see a nexus to terrorism or anything like that” in the outages.”

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Sure, okay. We get nothing but truth from the Obama government. Over 6 years of nothing but truth. LMAO

[Godzilla]

while the State Department conducted its press briefing in the dark.

isn't that how it always is?

[skimbell]

0 will probably have a windmill on the Whitehut roof by morning.

[NTegraT]

Danged old global warming, anyway.

[danamco]

We did not have power outage with WREC!!!

[I still care]

Killed my tv, Leni.