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| Pepco crews staging at the 7-Eleven store on River Road in Bethesda this morning |
UPDATE - 7:07 AM: Additional brownouts reported in the Westbard area from 6:49 AM to 6:51 AM, at which time there was a power outage from 6:51 to 7:03 AM, and at 7:04 AM.
Southwest Bethesda neighborhoods like Springfield, Sumner, Wood Acres, Bannockburn and Spring Hill are still experiencing significant power outages. Grid resiliency issues reared their head again in the Westbard area long after skies had cleared Saturday night. Residents there who were fortunate enough to retain power after the storm last night report experiencing brownouts at 2:12 AM and 4:32 AM. The 4:32 AM brownout was an extended one, as after a split-second blackout that ravaged appliance motors, light fixtures were shimmering and flickering until all power was lost around 4:45 AM. Power was then restored around 4:48 AM. Interestingly, both brownout episodes reported seem to coincide with brand new power outages in the Westbard and Wood Acres/Searl Terrace areas, which the Pepco outage map indicates were reported at 2:15 AM (Searl Terrace) and 4:53 AM (Westbard Avenue). This morning's brownouts follow three sunny day brownouts in the Westbard area two weeks ago.
In North Bethesda, apartment building residents reported being in the dark Saturday night, and outages persist around Grosvenor, Garrett Park, Tilden Lane, Randolph Hills and the Randolph Road corridor this morning. Things aren't looking much better in the Twinbrook and Rollins Park areas of Rockville.
Aspen Hill is still smarting today with many outages. Fortunately for those without air conditioning, today's high will "only" be 85 degrees, instead of the 99 degree peak experienced last Friday. Outages also persist around Leisure World, Bel Pre Road, Wheaton, Kensington, Kemp Mill, Takoma Park, Hillandale, Colesville and Fairland.
The storm appears to have cut a straight path across Montgomery Village, Goshen, and Laytonsville, judging from the large number of outages there. Outages remain in the Kentlands, Montgomery College-Germantown campus, Olney and Sandy Spring areas.
15 comments:
We live in a county that keeps raising property taxes to fund schools and
overpaid bureaucrats.
They rely solely on mother nature's wrath for tree trimming and pruning.
With the exception of annual street sweeping.
I will say that my neighborhood in Kensington had the power outage yesterday at around 4:30. A potential downed tree culprit is around the block. Fortunately the power came back after around 20 minutes. ]
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Awwe, poor baby, can't handle a little power outage. GROW THE F UP! You ain't seen nothing from mother nature yet. Now go back to clutching your precious pearls ya whiner.
I feel sorry for all the folks who went out and bought 10k plus generators. The only time they ever come on is for their monthly service check. Our power has almost never gone out since Excelon took over. That massive tree trimming effort has really paid off.
@6:52, why in the world should a county government be responsible for maintenance of a public utility's infrastructure? Should we hold MoCo government accountable for Metro's crummy escalators?
Drive along the avenues of the county and notice the giant U-shaped excisions in mature trees. Each has a massive chunk of its central foliage removed, as with a God-sized ice cream scoop. That was the hand of Exelon, whose crews swept through suburbia like Sherman on his March to the Sea, destroying most of the greenery they saw that came within ten feet of any powerlines.
Tree trimming near power line is Pepco's responsibility, not the County's.
My geologist savvy friends tell me that our 'hardpan' and unique soil structure throughout the 'DMV' (I loathe that, btw) makes for weak taproot penetration which is responsible for many whole trees toppling. Not much Pepco or anyone can do about that except bury lines going ahead. These old big trees we love are just gonna eventually come down.
Re crummy escalators: although Harry Weese (thru Stan Allan) did a remarkable architectural miracle with our metro design, they may have erred in thinking escalator design would mitigate essentially 'indoor/outdoor use." I cannot remember any application of contemporary escalators that work "outdoors," Our Metro is pretty unique that way: they tried little brushes to no avail. How else would users get to the various levels. Particularly from the exposed street? Banks of elevators? That's a nightmare too.
@12:27
We are in good hands between PEPCO and the County.
I have been trying to get PEPCO to get off their daffy and clear power lines for three years!
I tried for years to get the County to trim their trees that have DEAD tree branches looming precariously over the county roads to no avail.
In both cases, I spent over fifteen minutes each time to provide them with required personal information.
Meanwhile, all you can contribute is adding insult to injury.
@10:25 AM
Do you live in the same county?
I believe your are describing Utopia. . .
Who let the dogs in?
@12:27 PM
By the time PEPCO and MOCO resolve their responsibilities, nature will take care of the issue. . .
IF lines were to be buried, is that on Pepco or the county? Obviously, the residents would pay one way or another, but frankly I would be receptive to higher pepco rates if the lines were undeground.
@10:17 AM
When Pepco run an underground transmission line between Little Falls Pwy in MD and Pepco's Van Ness Substation in the NW DC, they dug up River road eight times because they could not get the welding right. . .
Yeah, they wiped out the tree in front of our house. Bizarre hack job.
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