Power Outage Montogomery County

[Anonymous]

Currently, more than 40 schools and 6 central office facilities are without power, affecting a number of key services such as maintenance, buses and food services.

[Anonymous]

I’ve been told that if you have power to use it to power phones/heat your house. That power will go out again when they begin the rescue.

- from a MoCo Fire and Rescue source

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Wow, the rush to judgment here is incredible. This accident could have been caused by mechanical failure, or any number of factors completely outside this pilot’s control. Yet one night without Netflix and microwave popcorn and everyone is ready to stone the poor man. Give him a break. He’s the one hanging from the power pole. You’ll be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS wouldn’t close all the schools in the county due to a handful of schools without power, right?

Way more than a handful…

MCPS just sent out a communication that notes 44 schools without power, plus 6 central office facilities. Sounds to me like they are planning for a closure.

Lawyer pilot should be fined to cover all these costs.

Why? It was an accident. Obviously he didn’t intend to crash into a power line and remain suspended in the air, with his life at risk, for multiple hours. The entitlement and selfishness on this thread is unreal.

I think they’re mostly ridiculous, too, but I’ll admit, the more I think about it, the less sure I am where the line is. If I accidentally crash my car into someone’s home, my car insurance is supposed to pay for the damages, right? I've never heard of that applying to the damage done to public structures or roads, but I'm not sure why it wouldn't.

And why isn’t Pepco to blame? Doesn’t seem like they are acting very expeditiously. I remember the 24 hours it took them to restore power in MoCo during a snowstorm. In Virginia, the lights would be on by now.

The priority is to rescue the people trapped in the plane, dummy. Pepco can only begin their restoration work after that.

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Power came back on in Olney/Brookeville.

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Anonymous wrote:My power just turned on!

Where?

derwood

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS wouldn’t close all the schools in the county due to a handful of schools without power, right?

Way more than a handful…

MCPS just sent out a communication that notes 44 schools without power, plus 6 central office facilities. Sounds to me like they are planning for a closure.

Lawyer pilot should be fined to cover all these costs.

Why? It was an accident. Obviously he didn’t intend to crash into a power line and remain suspended in the air, with his life at risk, for multiple hours. The entitlement and selfishness on this thread is unreal.

I think they’re mostly ridiculous, too, but I’ll admit, the more I think about it, the less sure I am where the line is. If I accidentally crash my car into someone’s home, my car insurance is supposed to pay for the damages, right? I've never heard of that applying to the damage done to public structures or roads, but I'm not sure why it wouldn't.

And why isn’t Pepco to blame? Doesn’t seem like they are acting very expeditiously. I remember the 24 hours it took them to restore power in MoCo during a snowstorm. In Virginia, the lights would be on by now.

The priority is to rescue the people trapped in the plane, dummy. Pepco can only begin their restoration work after that.

To be fair, the rescue effort could only begin once Pepco shut off the power and grounded the tower.

Still, it’s a complicated situation.

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Anonymous wrote:If teachers and bus drivers live in that area, it will affect other schools.

Huh? Why? You don’t think it’s going to be possible to drive out of that area?

Without power, I could not shower, blow dry my hair and get ready for work. So, no - I am not going in.

I honestly can’t tell if this poster is serious. You can’t go to work if you can’t blow dry your hair? Where I grew up (Midwest) this would clearly be a joke, but people in the DMV are… special.

Plus, water isn’t off— power is.

Like hell I’m taking a cold shower to go to work, so if my house has an electric water heater and power is out-I’m out.
Not to mention that when I taught HS I showered at 5 am and taking a shower in the pitch dark wouldn’t be on my to do list either.

I agree with this poster. I am not able to go to work without power to blow dry my hair; make coffee or otherwise get ready if it is completely dark. I need MCPS to close!

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Anonymous wrote:Power came back on in Olney/Brookeville.

For now. It may be intermittent through the night

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Power just came back on. (Aspen Hill).

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Anonymous wrote:If teachers and bus drivers live in that area, it will affect other schools.

Huh? Why? You don’t think it’s going to be possible to drive out of that area?

Without power, I could not shower, blow dry my hair and get ready for work. So, no - I am not going in.

I honestly can’t tell if this poster is serious. You can’t go to work if you can’t blow dry your hair? Where I grew up (Midwest) this would clearly be a joke, but people in the DMV are… special.

Plus, water isn’t off— power is.

Like hell I’m taking a cold shower to go to work, so if my house has an electric water heater and power is out-I’m out.
Not to mention that when I taught HS I showered at 5 am and taking a shower in the pitch dark wouldn’t be on my to do list either.

I agree with this poster. I am not able to go to work without power to blow dry my hair; make coffee or otherwise get ready if it is completely dark. I need MCPS to close!

This is why I have a generator.

[Anonymous]

My lights in Bethesda are flickering.

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Anonymous wrote:My lights in Bethesda are flickering.

Could be Vecna

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Anonymous wrote:My lights in Bethesda are flickering.

Could be Vecna

definitely vecna

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Anonymous wrote:Plane may be a piper cherokee so this isn’t someone’s first plane nor is it a starter plane like a Cessna 152

It’s a powerful plane, but that can be a rich persons first or 2nd plane - it left out of Westchester, NY, which is known for being wealthy.

The pilot probably got stuck in worse conditions than they anticipated, and either tried to fly under it to the airpark, or was inbound for landing and was way below glide slope.

It’s not his first plane. It’s his second crash.

Unreal.

How do you know that?