April 7, 2015
...Many of the outages were brief, (click here) but some were longer and forced evacuations. Officials said a mechanical failure at a transfer station led to the outages, and terrorism was not suspected. Tens of thousands of customers lost power.
At the White House, the interruption last only a few seconds before backup generators kicked on. The complex quickly went back onto regular power. Electricity in the press briefing room dipped around lunchtime, briefly darkening cubicles and blackening TV screens.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he was with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office when the power blip occurred, and they didn’t notice anything unusual.
Power also went out at the State Department during the daily press briefing, forcing spokeswoman Marie Harf to finish her comments in the dark.
Power in the U.S. Capitol building twice shut down briefly, and then came back on by way of a generator....
A piece of metal fell from a power line. It happens everyday, I sure. These are the power lines that feed the federal buildings in the USA. What?
April 7, 2015
By Aaron C. Davis and Julie Zauzmer
A piece of metal (click here) breaking loose from a power line 43 miles southeast of the District momentarily knocked out electricity to the White House, State Department and wide swaths of the nation’s capital and Maryland suburbs early Tuesday afternoon.
But the city barely noticed.
The outage threw scores of public and private office buildings off the grid, but in many cases, the lights stayed on because backup generators quickly kicked in....
...Many of the outages were brief, (click here) but some were longer and forced evacuations. Officials said a mechanical failure at a transfer station led to the outages, and terrorism was not suspected. Tens of thousands of customers lost power.
At the White House, the interruption last only a few seconds before backup generators kicked on. The complex quickly went back onto regular power. Electricity in the press briefing room dipped around lunchtime, briefly darkening cubicles and blackening TV screens.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he was with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office when the power blip occurred, and they didn’t notice anything unusual.
Power also went out at the State Department during the daily press briefing, forcing spokeswoman Marie Harf to finish her comments in the dark.
Power in the U.S. Capitol building twice shut down briefly, and then came back on by way of a generator....
A piece of metal fell from a power line. It happens everyday, I sure. These are the power lines that feed the federal buildings in the USA. What?
April 7, 2015
By Aaron C. Davis and Julie Zauzmer
A piece of metal (click here) breaking loose from a power line 43 miles southeast of the District momentarily knocked out electricity to the White House, State Department and wide swaths of the nation’s capital and Maryland suburbs early Tuesday afternoon.
But the city barely noticed.
The outage threw scores of public and private office buildings off the grid, but in many cases, the lights stayed on because backup generators quickly kicked in....
