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Electrical Woes
Xaquin
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so,
Right now, my home town, Patuxent River Naval Air Station, and the DC Navy Yard are without power
Any ideas?
I know we have a few NoVA, DC, MD folks here. Everyone ok?
edit: 1:15pm Power is back in parts of southern Maryland at least
edit: 1:30pm I've heard there was an explosion at the SMECO substation in Ryceville (Mechanicsville) which would explain a bunch of the power outages in Maryland, but certainly not College Park and D.C.
edit: 1:35pm http://www.cnbc.com/id/102566826 power out in the White House, State Dept, and College Park
edit: 1:40pm http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Scattered-Power-Outages-Reported-in-Across-DC-Area-298923411.html metro stops affected as well as Smithsonian Museums
EDIT: 2:00pm
Right now, my home town, Patuxent River Naval Air Station, and the DC Navy Yard are without power
Any ideas?
I know we have a few NoVA, DC, MD folks here. Everyone ok?
edit: 1:15pm Power is back in parts of southern Maryland at least
edit: 1:30pm I've heard there was an explosion at the SMECO substation in Ryceville (Mechanicsville) which would explain a bunch of the power outages in Maryland, but certainly not College Park and D.C.
edit: 1:35pm http://www.cnbc.com/id/102566826 power out in the White House, State Dept, and College Park
edit: 1:40pm http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Scattered-Power-Outages-Reported-in-Across-DC-Area-298923411.html metro stops affected as well as Smithsonian Museums
EDIT: 2:00pm
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 that they are trying to track down.
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This is just from talking to people I know via phone
Never heard of so many places going offline at once with no bad weather or anything.
just wanted to make sure everyone in the area was ok!
Twitter is reporting that its widespread
Haven't seen anything about a cause
White House and State Department are running on backup generators as is most of the Capitol complex
oh wait, D.C.??
raichu then
pepco is a joke of a company so this is no surprise.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Goddamnit, We're stuck with the politicians
Everyone knows that they laid off Raichu during the last shutdown. We're running on one sickly Minun (with his paired Plusle working the graveyard shift unpaid due to furlogh days).
I think Nic Cage is up to something.
Turrists.
well, those expensive suits should provide enough a wick effect for the masses to cook their food on when they go in the campfire
Not super worried about it but very strange
edit oh hey I guess the elevators are working now, blissful ignorance pays off again
You'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands!
~lines cubicle with barbed wire~
I think it says even more that our grid is aging and nonsensical at best.
The power went out. We waited to see if it was a brown -out wasn't.
I remember her looking at me, her face underlit by her tablet (the only thing still with power) and said:
"This is our penance, [Enc]. We flew too close to the sun. Now begins the era of darkness."
Oh without a doubt. Which makes its overall up-time stats all the more impressive. But man, I would volunteer in a heartbeat to join a team to rebuild that sucker from near scratch. So many possibilities.
That would require a government that wasn't ~50% made up of people who think infrastructure spending is evil
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Be fair, they only think it's evil when the money isn't going directly to their wealthy constituents.
The judge really did tell them the amount of money they spend fighting the regulations they could have used to upgrade the systems to standard. they spent twice the amount fighting it than just accepting the change and installing them
So they want to pass this cost onto us in our bills.
I am kind of happy they are going down in flames but I am also worried with the amount of sun they like to boast about why they don't install solar systems and it's not that far they have to dig to install geothermal power
with the later they could solve the non potable water problem they are running into as they pump water from the artesian well.
You'd also have a lot less infrastructure!
Oh don't worry I'm not actually an anti-tax nutjob or anything. Although I'm pretty sure my personal contributions to the national budget don't have that big an impact.