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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chuckling from the cheap seats. Our power lines in NE are buried. Never lost power in 19 years. [/quote]
We are in the wooded NOVA parts and lost power for about 5 hours.  Dominion power gives you an ETA for your address and actual time we got it back was a bit earlier.   I wonder what's going on with NWDCl.. or it could be that there was some localized microburst explosion there other parts maybe didn't get.  [/quote]

The damage in NW was extreme. Many trees uprooted or shattered, landing on power lines, streets, cars, and even some houses. I’ve never seen anything like it. It really was like a tornado strike.

My impression of the cleanup was that both Pepco and DDOT Urban Forestry were badly unprepared for the storm. This was beyond what they could handle themselves, and they didn’t have outside contractors / mutual aid lined up in advance. Bringing the extra capacity online cost about a day.

This is going to keep happening, unfortunately. It’s bananas that NW doesn’t have underground power. The cost is high, but so is the cost of not doing it.[/quote]

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