A power outage has left at least 750 homes in Bethesda near River Road without power. Particularly embarrassing for Pepco/Exelon, is that the current temperature is only 91 degrees, and there is no storm or even wind.
Pepco estimates power will be restored by 10:00 PM. Restoring confidence in a system that hasn't been truly tested since the "derecho" a few years back, may take longer.
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So why are you showing a photo of downtown Bethesda at night?
Did they say what caused it?
Thanks, PEPCO. Embarrassing for a non-weather event, I'd say. What is the cause?
To be fair, Pepco isn't nearly as shitty as it was earlier this decade. I haven't lost power in a number of years.
It should be remembered that Pepco's long earlier history of outages was primarily due to neglected maintenance and overage equipment, an operational plan used to increase profits (for which the CEO was handsomely rewarded, a day or two before private litigation revealed what the trouble tickets prepared by employees on trucks showed--a quite different profile of problems than the PR office had offered). The long-running excuse of downed trees explained a small minority of outages.
Whether the ostentatious tree-trimming has helped that small portion of problems I've no idea. The larger question is whether Pepco, after some belated oversight by the state regulators, remedied its infrastructure neglect and what Excelon's practices have been and will be. This was competently covered by the WP several years before the merger/acquisition.
A power outage left people without power? Outstanding reporting, Captain Redundant!
I hope you had a bunch of cheese to go with your whine, too...
So has power been restored? Your lack of an update is causing Westbard businesses to lose customers.
What was the cause?
I rode past westbard on the capital bike trail, and for the amount of reporting Robert does on it, I was extremely disappointed with what I saw.
Has power been restored?
HEY DYER YOU'RE MISSING A MUCH BIGGER OUTAGE TODAY!!!
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