D.C. Power Outage

[BGIF]

D.C. hit by power outage - CNN.com

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 1:44 PM ET, Tue April 7, 2015

Washington (CNN)Widespread power outages hit across Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, affecting government and privately-owned buildings intermittently early in the afternoon.

A spokesman for Pepco, the city's major electric utility, told CNN that the company is aware of the outages and is investigating the source of the problem.

The outage struck everything from the White House to the State Department, where government employees and reporters saw lights and power flicker out.

Power at CNN's D.C. bureau twice flickered off and on early in the afternoon.

The power went out during the daily State Department briefing, with Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf using a phone light to continue taking questions from reporters. Power remained off for the State Department as of 1:15 p.m., though most other affected buildings appeared to have power restored within seconds of it going out.

 

[Fbolt]

Must be a recess in Congress and the rats got off their wheel.

 

[BGIF]

Must be a recess in Congress and the rats got off their wheel.

Congress is off this week.

 

[BGIF]

Washington outages tied to Maryland power facility blast: Washington Post | Reuters

(Reuters) - Washington homeland security officials believe an explosion at a southern Maryland power facility caused power outages in the U.S. capital and surrounding areas on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported.

The outages cut power to the White House, State Department, several Smithsonian museums and other buildings. The Post said officials believe the problem stemmed from a Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative facility. A spokesman for SMECO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(Reporting by Emily Stephenson; Editing by Will Dunham)

 

[connor_in]

Apparently Sam Beckett is still leaping around time and sent the boys up to MD this time to plug in the hairdryer

 

[TheTurningPoint]

I blame LAX

 

[Old Man Mike]

I blame Saban, Calipari, Auriemma, and the refs.

Toss in Urban and Mora.

 

[BGIF]

I blame Saban, Calipari, Auriemma, and the refs.

Toss in Urban and Mora.

The usual suspects and ... No Bush?

I though he was the root of all problems in D.C.

 

[GoldenToTheGrave]

 

[Ndaccountant]

Apparently Sam Beckett is still leaping around time and sent the boys up to MD this time to plug in the hairdryer

oh boy

 

[IrishinTN]

They are behind on the bill. What else can you expect when you're $18 trillion dollars in debt?