Anonymous wrote:We are sleeping over at relatives in Springfield. They still have power.

Our answering machine is not picking up when we call the house... it must have lost power. I am not surprised. Our house is in Falls Church/ Mclean area and we lose power all the time. I hate living in an old farty neighborhood.

You have an answering machine?? It's 2012, not 1992.

"old farty neighborhood" = pretty much everywhere here.

Thanks for the reality dose and laugh!

Latest reports

Pepco: 28,607
BGE: 198,502
Dominion/Nova: 121,838

My part of old town still has power, but seeing lots of reports of transformers blowing and outages in the del ray and rosemont neighborhoods of Alexandria.

gulp.

We just lost power so you guys are going to be on your own. Behave yourselves.

Anonymous wrote:20015 near Friendship Heights-- still on, but flickers.

+1

WTOP says area outages have doubled in the last hour

Anonymous wrote:I assume power outages occur because a tree falls on a line? Just curious.

Or a power pole collapses because the ground gets so saturated that the foundation of the pole gets loose enough for the gale-force winds to knock it down, or a large object is blown into a line, pole or tree that knocks the line out, or a damage to a substation, or a water main break causes the power company to shut down power in the affected area, or...

There are many reasons for power outages, trees only being one (probably the most likely, but definitely far from the only reason).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is falls church city out?? 22046

FC 22042 still has power

Not our section of 22042 - we have been out since 6PM.

We are sleeping over at relatives in Springfield. They still have power.

Our answering machine is not picking up when we call the house... it must have lost power. I am not surprised. Our house is in Falls Church/ Mclean area and we lose power all the time. I hate living in an old farty neighborhood.

Our house on Capitol Hill went dark for about 15 seconds-back on now though

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Anonymous wrote:Shocked that we're still on in North Chevy Chase. Anyone know anything about Nicholson Lane by White Flint? I have a friend who's asking.

I'm just a ways south of there, at Tuckerman & Rockville Pk, west side, and we still have power, miraculously. Given our track record, I was assuming we'd lose power within three rain drops.

I was the Tuckerman & Pike poster. Lights flickering increasingly frequently now.

Also saw the flash of the transformer in Kensington. Street lights are out in front of our house, but houses still have power.

Anonymous wrote:Is falls church city out?? 22046

FC 22042 still has power