Many Bethesda businesses - and residents - remain without power tonight. The Bradley Shopping Center, home to Strosniders Hardware, is one of the largest to go dark. Another large shopping center shuttered for a second night is the Shoppes of Bethesda on Hampden Lane, where The Lauren remains the only property with power. That means Taylor Gourmet and Kapnos Kouzina were unable to serve meals for a second day, as well. One of the few gas stations left downtown, Liberty at the Bradley Shopping Center, was also shut down.
The largest power outage in Bethesda is currently near Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where 728 customers are in the dark. But dozens and dozens of smaller neighborhood outages, and over a hundred countywide, are yet to be repaired. Clearly, Pepco did not bring in enough crews from out of state, despite 72 hours advance notice from the National Weather Service.
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Love Dyer's 20/20 Hindsight.
ReplyDelete"Clearly, Pepco did not bring in enough crews from out of state, despite 72 hours advance notice from the National Weather Service."
ReplyDeleteFrom where would they get these crews? The Nor'easter affected a huge area of the eastern United States, with as many as 1.6 million houses and businesses having lost power.
@8:22 PM: There are states west of the coastal states that were most affected by the storm. Some of them are very nice.
ReplyDeletePike and Rose unaffected .... PIKE AND ROSE FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe're seeing several residential buildings and many businesses without power in downtown Bethesda.
ReplyDeleteImagine we're eventually down to one gas station in downtown Bethesda...and it loses power. These SUVs need to gas up somewhere!
ReplyDeleteI feel bad for all of the employees losing wages all weekend in all of these shops and restaurants. No sign of Pepco!
Looks like Dominion Power was hit as hard as PEPCO was.
ReplyDeleteAs of about 11:50 p.m. Friday, an estimated 600,000 customers were without power in the D.C. area.
"Dominion Energy in Northern Virginia reported more than 192,000 customers without power, with about 110,000 outages in Fairfax County alone.
"As of about 8 p.m., Pepco reported about 216,000 customers were without power in D.C., Montgomery and Prince George’s counties."
https://wtop.com/weather-news/2018/03/batten-hatches-high-winds-breeze-dc-area/slide/1/
The extreme anti-business environment of the country is completely out of control. It is a total farce to even think that we could land Amazon. Eventually, Bethesda will become a retail desert, sharing the same fate as The Collection at Chevy Chase. And the Council's punitive taxation scheme will continue to drive the ultra wealthy to flee in droves to greener pastures in Howard and Loudoun.
ReplyDeleteSome dude who's never held a job is somehow an expert on "business climate"?
ReplyDeleteTroll pretends he is Dyer then responds to himself. Slow saturday night?
ReplyDelete"Slow saturday night?" types #UnsignedDyer at 1:30 AM.
ReplyDelete9:11: Your comment indicates that Pepco had 20,000 more customers without power than Dominion. That's worse than Dominion, to state the obvious.
ReplyDelete8:22: The south, the midwest. They had 72 hours notice, to boot.
8:15: Love Pepco's 20/200 foresight.
9:40: I've held jobs, and run businesses. All you do is troll the internet and pick up Hans Riemer's dry cleaning. The Council hasn't attracted a major corporate headquarters in two decades, has lost over 2000 retail jobs, and has a $120,000,000 budget deficit, an MCPS decline in graduation rates, and a 31% spike in murders. Any questions?
Hey Dyer - How come you published the report below on your East County and Rockville blogs, but not your Bethesda blog? And no mention of the numerous huge trees that have fallen in and around Bethesda - heavily damaging or destroying several cars and houses. Were you afraid that doing so would contradict your narrative that "I've experienced wind gusts far higher and more sustained in seconds of length than this" and that that the power outages are all PEPCO's fault?
ReplyDelete"High winds got a quick start felling trees across Montgomery County overnight. Among the first to fall landed on a house in the 4200 block of Red Maple Court near Cedar Tree Drive in Burtonsville. No one was injured in that incident, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson Pete Piringer.
"One of the other early collapses was a tree at Baltimore Road and Gladstone Drive in Rockville. That one took out a Pepco transformer and power lines, causing a temporary road closure.
"The very first tree to fall in the County was in Kensington, which landed on a house at 9912 E. Bexhill Drive. Tragically, there was not only significant damage to the home, but a 100-year-old resident was rushed to the hospital as a Priority 2 trauma patient. The victim was trapped in her crushed bedroom before being extricated by firefighters."
While your power was out (not to metion the brain power you lack) the following has occurred in MORIBUND MOCO. "
ReplyDeleteChinese investors pump new dollars into Maryland’s pharmaceutical industry from The Washington Post". http://wapo.st/2oOEFMt?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.4bd82d1709ca
1:08: Because none of those trees falling fell in Bethesda! You are referring to later in the storm, long after that early report (published while many reporters were still at Starbucks getting coffee, and reading my at-the-moment report overnight on the fire at Glen Echo Park).
ReplyDeletePepco clearcut and mutilated trees countywide in the claim it would improve service. You're acknowledging they failed? So why are you complaining about my articles holding Pepco accountable?
1:13: That's not relocating a Fortune 500 HQ to MoCo, just an investment of foreign money from Communist China.
1:13: Ha, I checked the article, and it's the same 100 jobs you were talking about last week. Fire up the microwave. Meanwhile, we lost 1000s of jobs in one day last week, thanks to the inept, impotent and incompetent crooks on the Montgomery County Council.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if Helpless Han Riemer & Co. would look beyond Communist China and Cuba for economic development tour destinations, Montgomery County's economy wouldn't be moribund.
ReplyDeleteWhat part of "a consortium of Chinese private equity funds" did you miss, Dyer? Mao's been dead for 41 years, mang.
ReplyDeleteWe should not look to the world's second largest economy for economic development.
ReplyDeleteInstead, we should listen to the random rantings from a dude who's never had a job and has lived in his parents' house his entire life.
AMZHQ2 will be the only Fortune 500 headquarters with a Lord & Taylor in the same building. That will be so awesome!
ReplyDelete1:34: You mean the same Communist dictatorship where people are locked up and executed for having different political opinions, and the leader has just taken steps to be dictator for life?
ReplyDeleteNo wonder you and Hans Riemer look to them for inspiration!
Your comment went right over Dyer's head, @ 1:41 PM.
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