Posted on 04/07/2015 10:57:03 AM PDT by Resettozero
The White House and State Department lost power Tuesday afternoon due to a major power outage across the nation’s capital and parts of Maryland. The power went out at the White House for nearly 10 seconds while the State Department conducted its press briefing in the dark. The Justice Department’s power also went down. The power outage stretched to the University of Maryland’s campus in College Park.
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EMP!
ISIS said they would do this.
Obama has a pen so let him write an Executive Order to make the lights go back on.
Maybe nothing bad will get done while power is out. Maybe this should be a permanent thing.
Hah.
You tease.
There goes those disk drives without backups.
How long until it is publicly suggested that the Tea Party is responsible for the outage?
Obvious warning signs of the devastating effects of climate change (tm).
Wow 10 whole seconds! And i thought they always left the press in the dark?
Brown out from power plant regs?
Explosion causes massive power outage in DC, Md.
http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/2015/04/07/power-outage/25411283/
An explosion at a Maryland power plant is to blame for a region-wide power outage that has impacted the White House, the Capitol, the University of Maryland and other buildings in D.C. and Maryland on Tuesday afternoon, according to an official.
D.C. Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management spokeswoman Robyn Johnson told the Associated Press that the outage affected 8,000 customers in the District.
Southern Maryland Electric Company (SMECO)’s outage map shows approximately 21,832 customers without power. Spokesperson Tom Denison says the outage is due to a transmission line problem. We’re told that the plant where the transmission line failed is located on Ryceville Road in Mechanicsville.
5.56mm
We are being governed by nincompoops.
(and sad to say, they aren’t all democrats)
How many billions or trillions of dollars have been wasted on alternate energy scams in the last six years?
And these idiots don’t even have back-up power systems in their own buildings?
It must be that none of the politicians has a brother-in-law in the business in the D.C. area.
No power at all in my place. I called the utility (Duke Energy) but couldn't get through.
The outage covered a whole neighborhood in my part of Pasco County, Florida.
I couldn't believe the coincidence between here and DC....i.e., mutual outages
Power just came back on....
Good thing I'm not superstitious.
Leni
I guess they turn off the lights when you owe $18 trillion to the bosses.
I’m sorry......what’s the problem, again? ;)
Hey. One of you retired electricians on here please inform people here what happens when you overload a system...any system.
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