Who's still waiting for power?

[Anonymous]

OP here in 20895. I was just told by Pepco we won't have power until Sunday at 11 p.m. This sucks so bad. Back to the hotel and spending an insane amount of $$$$.

I'm in 20895 too, Kensington Estates, and our power came back on about 5 this evening. We were also told Sunday. Check your house--the power is coming on street by street, I think. My understanding is Pepco is re-routing our power away from the sub-station where the roof collapsed. Al Carr, our state delegate is all over this. We are continually plagued with long power outages (48+ hours).

Don't shell out for the hotel til you check the house. Good luck!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're in DC proper, so of course our power's back on. Sometimes living in the Most Powerful City In The World has it's advantages. I hope you folks on the hustings are back up soon.

48 hrs later and Haiti has a better grid than "the most powerful city in the world" - pathetic ain't it?

[Anonymous]

Another 20895 poster here. Power came back at 4:30 this morning. We were returning to "normal" tonight when it went off at 7:15. DD and I freaked. It came back on about 6 minutes later, but DD has a death grip on her princess flashlight. This uncertainty is killing us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone in 20015? We are sick of contingency planning.

In 20015 and it came back on around 1AM.

Ours, too. But friends a few blocks away are still out. I've had it with Pepco. It's just insane.

[Anonymous]

Still out. Pepco says there are "three orders" for our neighborhood, and no crews assigned yet. 20815.

[Anonymous]

We finally got ours on yesterday, but original poster if you got a hotel at least you had that much - may of us had to stay with no heat for the two days and I'm sure there are many more who can't post with no electricity/internet (we don't have internet on our phones) -- we just wanted heat - I got so tired of listening to the radio comment about the lights, etc. (clearly they were in their warm houses as you can live without lights far more easily than heat).

For fish, we did water changes every 7 hours or so as we have a gas hot water heater and that worked gratefully so we just got the temp warmer so all survived. We also covered the tank with towels to keep it more insulated. We thought about moving them but were worried that would just make it worse to our neighbors with a generator in our small tank.