Power Outage Montogomery County

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Power was out for over 45 minutes for me here in Silver Spring...not a light to be seen anywhere for the first 10 minutes. Not gonna lie, I was scared and thought the Russians might've done something. I'm a bit relieved it had to do with this small plane crash. Praying the pilot and passenger are OK.

Are you ok?!

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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 was a M20J

[Anonymous]

Our neighborhood in Rockville is out. What’s weird is we also had lights flicker at around 10:30 last night and and a brief outage again early this morning. WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 was a M20J

holy crap that cruises at 242 knots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 was a M20J

holy crap that cruises at 242 knots

Yes, but they were landing at the airpark, probably going about 70-75 knots at the time.

[Anonymous]

How are Mooney planes so fast? The m-18 has 65 hp and has a top speed of 138 mph

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 was a M20J

holy crap that cruises at 242 knots

Yes, but they were landing at the airpark, probably going about 70-75 knots at the time.

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Just saying that plane is remarkable . 200 something hp and it has a faster cruising speed that most ww2 era fighters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our neighborhood in Rockville is out. What’s weird is we also had lights flicker at around 10:30 last night and and a brief outage again early this morning. WTF?

We had the same happen last night in Aspen Hill. My DH was convinced it was a hack when power went out today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wtop says it may be fixed tomorrow afternoon. My power went back on for a fraction of a second

Wonder if this means MCPS might be closed tomorrow.

Not likely all of mcps would close, only the schools affected by outages early in the morning.

[Anonymous]

If you haven't lost power yet, you still may. They can rescue the plane passengers until the power is cut to the wires...right now the wires up there are still live. So I imagine more will lose power before they start restoring.

[Anonymous]

I am hoping to lose power and have school and work canceled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you haven't lost power yet, you still may. They can rescue the plane passengers until the power is cut to the wires...right now the wires up there are still live. So I imagine more will lose power before they start restoring.

Source?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The airpark was rural when it was built. It no longer is. After this and the crash that killed the Gemmell family a few years ago, I think it's reasonable to have a conversation about whether continuing to host an airpark in that location, with amateur pilots and no ATC routinely overflying houses and infrastructure on the landing path, is a good idea. Obviously we don't know what happened here but 88% of plane crashes overall are due to pilot error so it's not out of line to assume the pilot may have screwed up here and not seen something, particularly in this weather. Hopefully this power outage hasn't killed anyone through losing home medical equipment or traffic lights not working, or hospital operations in the blackout zone being disrupted.

Agree...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our neighborhood in Rockville is out. What’s weird is we also had lights flicker at around 10:30 last night and and a brief outage again early this morning. WTF?

We had the same happen last night in Aspen Hill. My DH was convinced it was a hack when power went out today.

Same here in Silver Spring. When the power went out today, I immediately thought of the lights flickering last night and thought it was connected.