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White House In The Dark, On Lockdown Following D.C.-Wide Power Outage
Update 2:
BREAKING NEWS: White House on lockdown. Unknown if related to the massive power outage.
— Breaking News Feed (@PzFeed) April 7, 2015
Update: NO INITIAL INDICATIONS OF TERRORISM IN WASHINGTON, D.C., POWER OUTAGES - U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Spokesman says WH on backup generators that kicked in after power outage.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 7, 2015
D.C. Homeland security officials believe an explosion at a SMECO power facility in southern Maryland caused the surge into D.C.
— Aaron C. Davis (@byaaroncdavis) April 7, 2015
Some more from The Hill:
Government buildings throughout Washington, including the White House and State Department, briefly lost power on Tuesday.
Electricity provider Pepco said the cause of the outages "is under evaluation."
The Department of Homeland Security does not suspect the outages to have anything to do with criminal activity or terrorism, according to CNBC.
At the White House, the lights in the lower press area went off for a few seconds before turning on again. Power also went out in other parts of the building, according to White House staff.
"Power outage affecting many parts of the city, and it affected the [White House] complex. We were on a backup generator and now we are back on normal power," a White House spokesman said.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf continued speaking with reporters when the power went out during her midday briefing.
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The utility firm Pepco is currently investigating a Washington-wide black-out that has plunged The White House, State Department, The US Capitol, D.C. Metro, and even Oprah's TV Stage into darkness...Ironically, the outage occurred minutes after Rand Paul commented that "the time has come to take away the power from Washington D.C..."
A spokesperson for Pepco, the Washington, D.C.-area provider electricity utility, told Reuters that it experienced scattered outages Tuesday but that they had happened for “unknown reasons.”
Real-time Pepco Outage Map here...
Has anyone seen Kim Jong-Un today?
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The blackout as it happened during the State briefing:
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Breaking: Scatter power outage also affected the White House, US Capitol, and Justice Department in addition to State Department. #Power
— Edward Lawrence (@NewsEdward) April 7, 2015
As Bloomberg reports,
The U.S. State Department lost electrical power Tuesday during its daily press briefing, and power also was briefly lost in areas of the White House and the Capitol.
Pepco Holdings Co. has started work to restore electricity to the State Department and other buildings in the area. It will take one to two hours until power is fully restored, according to an announcement over the State Department emergency broadcast system.
Hallways were dark in the State Department, lit only by light filtering in from the windows. Spokeswoman Marie Harf completed her briefing in the dark, reading from her briefing binder by the light of her iPhone as reporters took notes with lighting from their mobile phones.
Power briefly flickered off at the White House Tuesday afternoon, affecting the media workspace and at least some staff areas. Aides would not say if the White House was being powered by backup generators, though they planned to issue a statement later. Guests entering the White House were also temporarily delayed because Secret Service screening equipment was briefly knocked offline by the outage.
Multiple buildings in the U.S. Capitol complex were experiencing intermittent power outages, Capitol Police spokesman Shennell Antrobus said in an e-mail. The Capitol Police and architect of the Capitol were investigating the cause of the outages, he said.
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The State Department currently...
Offices being evacuated...
Power Outages Reported Across Washington D.C. Area http://t.co/5WuFHqd741 pic.twitter.com/LDQ5U2O22y
— Hotpage News (@HotpageNews) April 7, 2015
The State Department press briefing continues in darkness. Power outage pic.twitter.com/Ph9Zytt7Hp
— Gayane Chichakyan (@Gayane_RT) April 7, 2015
- *PEPCO SPOKESMAN SAYS NO FURTHER COMMENT ON POWER OUTAGES
- *PEPCO SAYS IT'S GATHERING INFORMATION ON D.C. POWER OUTAGES
- *STATE DEPT SAYS PEPCO EXPECTS TO RESTORE POWER IN 1-2 HOURS
- *SMITHSONIAN SAYS SOME OF ITS MUSEUMS SEEING POWER OUTAGES
- *SMITHSONIAN SAYS ON TWITTER THAT FOUR MUSEUMS NOW EVACUATED
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Stop playing with the PLCs!!!
Edit: #STUXXNET
TEPCO ???
Am I the only one surprised that the white house does NOT have a stand alone backup power source?
Sheesh.
pods
why?
they dont back up hillary's email.....
That's OK; the NSA, the Russians, Chinese, and Israeli's all have copies.
Hasbra Urban Moving white van spotted near White House with dual citizens aboard.
Israel is firing a warning shot to Goyim Americans to not attempt a peaceful resolution over Iranian nuclear issue.
Nothing to see here shitizen, move along
How does one not vote for Rand Paul now that he has shown himself to be God?
The power outage happened shortly after this Rand Paul person stated that power ought to be taken away from Washington? He means business.
Stupid motherfuckers didn't ever consider the idea of using the Washington Monument & the Potomac River as an Egyptian style Tesla Tower...
Idiots ~ Instead, they stole all Teslas notebooks, buried them in a vault, let GE run wild, & build fucking nuclear plants on Japanese fault lines...
"the outage occurred minutes after Rand Paul commented that "the time has come to take away the power from Washington D.C..." "
Kinda hoping Rand turns out to be a supervillian.
The power may be off but no one has found out how to pull the plug on the bullshit.
They've been in the dark since Jan. 20th, 2009
Maybe Obama will put some solar panels and the white house roof before his term is over in case they cut off his power again...
There are thousands of people in D.C. at risk of dehydration and starving to death without power.
PerpCo ?
<-- Poutine
<-- Kim Il Sung
This calls for stricter gun control regulations. I have no idea why, but somehow that will be the result of this.
Fuck D.C.
don cheedles van is all messed up now.
rand paul will push for the fed to be audited, will join the orchestrated push to sign us onto the imf tyranny. remove power indeed.
DC already has gun controls. Citizens cannot have firearms - only FEDS.
That still isn't nearly enough...
The SEC plugged in too many dildoes at once. Those old buildings cant handle these new uber-dildoes that suck up power like crazy.
"There are thousands of people in D.C. at risk of dehydration and starving to death without power."
Well I sure as fuck hope it's the ones on K Street!
Tuesday at noon....? (easy throw away day)
spring.....low power needs (no a/c, no heat)
planned would not surprise.
Unfortunately, the energy is perpetual like the bullshit...
The utility firm Pepco is currently investigating a Washington-wide black-out that has plunged The White House, State Department, The US Capitol, D.C. Metro, and even Oprah's TV Stage into darkness...funny, I thought all of those places had plunged into darkness years ago.
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
In comparison to who and or what? The current and last 3 presidents haven't been villanous enough for you?
UPDATED.
Sources reporting power outage is result of explosion at electricity producing substructure in Maryland
Whisper rumor of Urban Movers white van near that facility moments prior to explosion. Transformer was recently serviced by U.S. Government contractor, Hasbra Disraeli Tel Aviv Utility Company, two days prior.
SOMETHING'S NOT KOSHER, MOSHE.
sources reporting anti-semites fabricating nonense to race bait.
oh no 'it's not anti-semitism' because hasbara is code for the zionist nazi's not the jews because there's a zionist jewish conspiracy but i'ts not a racism thing against jews.
but ...it's the jews!.
nazi troll force on zh is strong. possibly cia run to spread divide and conquer as usual.
Fail: Not all Zionists are Jewish and not all Jews are Zionist. Zionism is a particularly vile political ideology.
Oh FFS... Fuck the Zionists & fuck the idiot jews who skate on the well lubricated viscosity that Zionists have greased with their control of power nodes...
CIA = Mossad for all intents & purposes...
So lets say that this is all a planned Zionist 'stunt' [which I'm NOT saying, but for shits & grins, lets say it is]...
The average joo lobbyist in DC [&/or Jooze Allen employee], or any other 6 figure sheckel paycheck collector radiating out & upwards along the:
- I 270 tech corridor
- up 295 to Ft Meade
- or across the river along 395 to NOVA
Prolly has ZERO idea that they've been captured by Zionists... They prolly just think they're actually SMART, earn their fat paychecks because they went to Brandeis or Columbia, & never stop to question anything [because the FED was conceived by jews, & has been run by jews for the past 30 years, & the money counterfeitting gravy train will never stop] ~ Hell, I don't blame them...
They're actually just pissed about this INCONVENIENCE because their dinner reservations got cancelled this evening... & after all, they're trying ther hardest to be good [DUAL] citizens by keeping the 'bartender & 'waiter' economy alive & thriving...
seems there is a simple way to cause a DC city wide black out..where's tall tom??
the info on how it was caused could be useful.
let me guess, asshole - if someone suggests that the Saudis, who are Semites, had something to do with 9/11, that's just fine because we all know Moooslims are terrorists, but if you suggest, in accordance with lots and lots of evidence, that the Israelis did - it's "anti-Semitism" because though you're referring to a government, that government is of the "Jewish state" so you can't criticize it?
Go fuck yourself.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2005/08/31/israel-and-911-new-report-...
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it
I have heard that Saudi Arabia and Israel are the "Sister" states of the area. Basically they work together to manipulate the whole region.
I Light
This is not news. Darkness descended over DC a long time ago.
Kilgore - "I love the smell of sulphur in the morning."
Although they have been perfoming blood rituals at the Georgia Guidestones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhP50VFV0jE
FDR and the emergency war powers act (American bankruptcy) comes to mind as a time the sun set.
The power that DON'T be.
No disrespect to Rand intended.
My God, this proxy war.
Buildings blow up, subs catch on fire, planes fall out of the sky... Helicopters blowing up...
DC: hey, Turkey? Isn't your grid infrastructure equipment a bit dated in spots?
Turkey: Yes. Why?
DC: Oh, nothing. Just wondering.
And now Washington DC has lost power. Oh my Gawwwwd. What are we to do???
I know...PARTY!!!!
CELEBRATE!!!
Some dude fiddling with the gas / electricity meters
Meh, the Lizard people are just doing stuff to keep from being bored in their underground base(s) beneath DIA! :>D
too funny
WE ARE A MOTHER-FUCKING SUPER POWER AND WE MOTHER GODAMN CALL THE MOTHER CUNT FUCKING SHOTS!!!
um, can someone maybe get the electricity on? I B stuck in an elevator n sheet!
I MOTHER FUCKING SPREAD MY COW LEGS, cuckoled MY STERILE HUSBAND BILL AND I MOTHER FUCKING CANNOT CUM UNLESS I MOUNT A PILE OF at LEAST 1000 corpses!!!
Look, am I being unreasonable here? I don't thinks so
Nah, likely an accident, caused by Russian Naval shipyard welders.
They soon will. The cost overuns will be astronomical and the contract will go to the folks who brought us the O'care software fiasco.
Mmmmm... I smell 80'000'000 bugs here!
amazing, for all the money wasted on fema, continuity of gubbermint, etc, what's a few backup generators ?
No one to pay for or run the paperwork for the envioremental impact study and all the rest to get it "shovel ready".
Bet they get it done with waivers real quick now.
"Spokesman says WH on backup generators that kicked in after power outage."
So it looks like its State that has no back-up power source. With all the ongoing 24/7/365 shit they plot and stir up this is mind boggleing.
I saw that the WH was on backup. Maybe I missed it first.
The fact that any gov offices are not on backup is astounding.
Fuck, Building 7 had backups, and building's sole purpose was to cover the tracks for destroying the other two.
pods
My new tshirt
WTC7WTF?
Hell yeah! I'll take 2 Med. 5 Lg. and 3 XLg.
The beauty in the efficiency of government is that they can use any crisis or issue to their advantage. There is no downside...except for us, of course.
Overheard in Congressional staff parking lot.
"Hi. Um, ...this outlet isn't working.
-Where do I plug in my Tesla?"
Water was running, children were running
You were running out of time
Under the mountain a golden fountain
Were you praying at the Lares shrine?
But oh woh, oh your city lies in dust, my friend
Oh woh, oh your city lies in dust, my friend
We found you hiding, we found you lying
Choking on the dirt and sand
Your former glories and all the stories
Dragged and washed with eager hands
But ohh, oh your city lies in dust, my friend
Oh woh, oh your city lies in dust, my friend
Your city lies in dust
Looking at the map, the term Black Out is kind of IRONIC. The parts of DC that lost power are not the black parts of the city.
I hear that some parts of DC are darker than others.
Northwest DC is where the money people live. Georgetown north along the potomac river to MD state line.
Any other section, be prepared to have the tires stolen off your car.
"be prepared to have the tires stolen off your car."
That's somewhat better than the outcome in a banksterhood. There, the car goes, leaving the tires along with a bill from them for keeping the car 'safe'.
If you lose war after war to men with enemies that walk to the front with rubber tire shoes and just a rifle ... You might not be a superpower.
If you spaz on your "allies" about this Asian bank and they ignore you, you might not be a superpower.
If you rely on murder and threats instead of efficient manufacturing and honest trade to spread your ideals, you might not be a superpower.
If you elect functional retards as your "leaders" you might not be a superpower.
If you rely on the stupidity and fear of strangers to supply your energy and buy your debt, you might not be a super power...
We darkened some folks...
Speaking of the Jenner girl...
Indeed, it’s even plain scary!
Just the power outage requires a evacuation!?!?
The US has no ways to defend itself if it would be under attack. All it has is offensive power and that’s where it’s weakness is.
A simple wrench in the powerbox is enough to get potus out of the city.
I don’t think people realize what that means.
First we saw how defenceless America was against crashing planes, 3 times over. And now a broken fuse makes it without rule?
What a joke!
Take down a system? Find a common mode failure.
What's the probability that all four engines on a 747 will fail in a short interval during flight? About 0 normally, but about 1 if the plane flies through an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption.
Well, they were going to scramble F-22's, but that didn't work, so they were going to scramble F-35's, but that didn't work, so they turned on their superradar and that didn't work, so they were going to launch fighters off the carriers, but the launchers didn't work, so...
Oh, it was raining, so they couldn't scramble the B-1's...
It's OK - they scrambled two Piper Cubs (no electric system, hand start).
They had Moochelle climb to the top of the Washington Monument to fend off any in coming.
BREAKING NEWS: Power out at White House Secret Service using loudspeakers yelling for Bamster to smile, apparently they couldn't find him..
Couldn't help myself.. I'll say it, it's a joke calm down..
LMAO
No power?
How did Obamo know when to face Mecca?
OK, for anyone old enough to remember King Kong- that shit's funny!
Thanks, I needed that!
That was my thought too.
Better get on that in case HillBill end up back in there. (or is it Billary until by some chance she gets POTUS?)
I strongly suspect that there's probably several levels below that are on a full time standby power supply, just like critical server infrastructure is. Putting the for-show whitehouse on that system probably didn't make sense to the designers.
The 'for-show whitehouse' is all that matters. The rest, not so much.
A bit more than a decade ago, I was on a invite at the hitachi headquarters in Japan.
And I remember they had a power blackout at that timewhile we where seeing a demonstration about a power management system for large buildings.
And I still remember those japanese telling us that all their computers where linked to a backup battery sytem and when the electricity was cut off, they would all go into backup mode and shut down.
The funny part was, they forgot to Connect the screens of the servers on that battery system and couldn’t confirm the shutdown process and they lost all their data :)
Those japs where going nuts while we where almost peeing in our pants from laughter :)
Some folks were blacked out..
Binge-drinking does that. :>D
A nation and capital of cunts.
I used to work as a protection engineer. The White House has on-site backup generation. What intrigues me about this incident is that in a part of the country with such a tightly interconnected transmission network, the loss of a plant resulted in an outage. This points two one of two things: 1) negligent protection engineering or 2) sabotage. When there is a sudden change in either load or generation, the system is designed to maintain 60Hz as closely as possible by adjusting generation output via automatic control systems and, if necessary, load shedding. The validity of those control system settings and load shedding settings is supposed to be continuously evaluated via power simulations conducted by the responsible utility, so shit like this doesn't happen. But it happened. Why?
No I think that was KEPCO
Khazar Exploration and Production Company (KEPCO)But hey, you were all but one letter right!
Not yet, they are biden' their time.
If only we could leave it turned off for a year or so; what a relief that would be.
Or Pepsico???
Pay your electric bill you dead beats!...oh wait...I pay their electric bill.....
nevermind.
They declined Barry's credit card like at that restaurant.
In other news, the Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky managed to gain a US visa a few days ago, in spite of being blacklisted for trivialities such as alleged financial irregularities. Ukrainian oligarchs have a complicated relationship with energy supplies.
http://novorus.info/uploads/posts/2014-06/1403230544_1403021608_nct6kgpp...
This outage is clearly totally coincidental.
Isn't this how Die Hard 4 started? We need Bruce Willis.
We need a new writer first. That movie was fucking AWFUL.
Looks like some are on cocaine. They don't blink.
WB7, there's not a day when troubled by the clusterfuck is our world that you fail to make me laff.
Bless you! You're a ray of sunshine on a dismal day.
Prince of darkness
Thats KingBO to you.
need more solar and wind subsidies!! hahahaha
WHITE HOUSE IN THE DARK!
What else is f*cking new
Best news today.
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@overflow +1 for knowing what a PLC is...
Embarrassing.
Pay your electricity bill, Fed Gov. Sell some more bonds to Mr. Yellen, FFS.
#BananaRepublic
+1, okay, that made us laugh, sometimes the answer really isn't that complicated.
PEPCO will soon be PepsiCo Utility Company, as corporations will pay government bills to get advertising, just like in Idiocracy.
There is a God.
Something good finally happened in D.C. Its been quite a while.
Dam squirrels do it all the time.
Powerful (I know, bad choice of words) metaphor.
Leave that shit whole in the dark forever.
Do we still have to pay taxes this year?
The most blackout's since Lehman
this now puts us over the top for the most "most * since Lehman" declarations since Lehman.
Best "news" of the week so far. I would gladly pay for a permanent blackout of the District of Corruption.
I know a guy. How much?
Yer comment reminded me of this:
A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington , DC . Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window. The driver rolls down the window and asks, "What's going on?"
"Terrorists have kidnapped the ENTIRE US Congress, and they're asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, collecting donations."
"How much is everyone giving, on an average?" the driver asks.
The man replies, "Roughly a gallon."
PPT working exceptionally hard today from the bottom floor of the fed, using all power to keep the ship afloat.
Where the hell are the bribes going to occur if there aren't any lights...on the street?
Get to work, Mr. Electricityman.
Putin did it.
Your agents torch my sub? I turn out your lights!
Jewish Lightning struck.
Roaches live in the dark anyway!
Okay, that's done; now someone get working on the water lines.
Do north 16th street, the supreme 33 scottish rite temple has power... Real power.
does the box with the big red button have a battery backup?
Doesn't the White House have back up power. Doesn't seem very secure, huh?
Is this what they call "black ops?"
Moochelle said, "Does the box with the big red button have a battery backup?"
Barry replied, "I don't know. I am terrified of the dark. This must be a terror attack. So let's push it to see if it works."
like this, but less subtle.
https://youtu.be/-EdZEJfPPeM
If Rand Paul can turn out the lights on DC just by announcing his candidacy, he's got my vote for sure.
Apart from that, doesn't this power outage thing seem to be happening oftener and oftener?
Something like this probably happened in Rome too, just before they fizzled out.
Quick everybody to the Colleseum!
Nah, the royalty has access to candles.
How about the Forum? :>D
It does seem so. Everyone heard about Turkey
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/massive-power-blackouts-hit-turkish-cit...
but Amsterdam was apparently less reported
http://news.yahoo.com/major-power-outage-hits-amsterdam-halting-trains-0...
(Too lazy to find better sources.)
Catch that slicky cat.
Ya OK, pull the other one it's got bells on. Are they telling us the White House, US Capitol and Justice Department don't have back-up generators? Insinuating a power outage can put the departments into darkness is a total joke
No backup generators ?
No UPS's ?
WFT ?
Came pre-loaded with Chinese internal EMP's.
money given to wall street friends & offshore accounts
The lights are on but nobody's home.
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.
The Scientologists are attacking!!!
Xenu is pissed.....mostly because of the Tom cruz / Katie Holmes breakup.
Is there time to get in 18 holes?
Reggie - where did you go? Oh, there you are.
` paraphrased from Blazing Saddles
NoVa
come on fellas it ritual
talmoodick like
it has meanings already
not really a sign more a brookings institute meme activated
it means stuff to the masonics
shits happinin all overs
i heres day just switch cern back on
whatdoyanose
higs bosun is tavistock bollox
stephen hawkins can walk and talk
that cern baby is a stargate init
MSM has really been pumping substation security lately. As always, epic timing..
central london had underground fire going for days
jewish firemen actors still performing damping down after 5 days already
You...you...you...mean to tell me that this...this...this might be staged?
My Gawd. Say it isn't so.