The power has gone out eight times tonight.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Finally, an hour after the last failure, I'd say we're...

Make that nine times.

[soothsayer]

1. South Arlington? Something got cut I think

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Alexandria, but not far from south Arlington.

I think it's localized rather than widespread. I can see lights elsewhere in my fair city.

The neighbors across the street are on a different fed than I am. It is not unknown that I am without power, but I can see lights on across the street.

And we're up to ten times now. I don't think it's vegetation.

[soothsayer]

3. I tell a lie. Circuit at a substation

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. There's a big substation near the DMV near Walter Reed Drive, but that doesn't supply us. NT

[soothsayer]

7. Says it's restored anyway as of a 15 minutes ago

Link to tweet

?s=21

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. That's not anywhere near us, but it must be the cause.

The people across the street seem not to be affected. Let me turn on the TV again.

Oh, no.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. That's what Dominion says.

Dominion Energy Retweeted

We’ve traced the Alexandria/Arlington outage to a circuit at a substation. That’s what’s causing the flickering. Our crews are on it and trying to get your power back ASAP!
@justindotnet

@AlexandriaVAGov

@DominionEnergy

Link to tweet

Saaayyyyyyy, doesn't Peggy Fox look like one of those Russian trolls always praising Trump?

[getagrip_already]

4. did you try to post an anti-biden article?

Then that is what is causing it.

Look, we invented the internet and we damned well aren't going to allow anyone to post anti-biden messaging.

We are an all knowing and vengeful entity.

Be warned. Now go stand in traffic so we can squish you.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. These go to eleven. The outages are lasting only a few seconds.

Invasion by giant ants, mutant as the result of nuclear testing?

That was on two nights ago.

[Yonnie3]

10. Dominion's outage map shows a sigificant outage of over 4k meters

It's east of 395 and northwest of Alexandria.

Perhaps something wrong there is opening the recloser on your feed. The center is near the Episcopal High School where John McCain was schooled and where I was working a wedding when the August 12, Unite the Right crap happened at home.

https://outagemap.dominionenergy.com/external/default.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. There's a pole in front of the house that had issues over the summer and last week.

The issue over the summer was a burned out lightning arrester on one of the phase conductors. The issue last week was a branch that drifted into a phase conductor.

I am familiar with how an automatic recloser normally operates. An automatic recloser will usually make two attempts at reenergizing the line, to make sure that the squirrel is good and fried, and then give up, figuring that the problem is big enough to warrant a service call.

Last week, the recloser tried to reenergize the line twice. It was to no avail, as the vegetation was still up against the line. It was a tree branch. The lineman came out with a power saw on the end of a pole. Working from ana elevated bucket, he cut off a bunch of branches.

The line clearance did the trick.

[Yonnie3]

15. A look back at Dominion shows

Alexandria 10,065 out of 66,01 and Arlington 1,186 out of 98,040 this is much more than earlier.

The reclosers on the feeds to our factory had three tries set. A few seconds and then ten and then thirty. We were tapped into the higher voltage feed between substations and all the reclosers were radio reporting and radio controlled. The lower voltage circuits that fed some of the other buildings seemed to have a try twice recloser circuit.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. BREAKING: Massive Power Outage Reported in Alexandria

BREAKING: Massive Power Outage Reported in Alexandria

ALXnow.com October 23, 2020 at 8:25pm



Update at 8:55 p.m. — Power has been restored, according to Dominion spokeswoman Peggy Fox.

{ummm, no}

{snip}

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Now I'll never know what Candace Owens had to say.

Fri Oct 23, 2020: Candace Owens or "Forbidden Planet"?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. The Arlington version, with the usual gang of commenters

Thousands Without Power in Parts of South Arlington

ARLnow.com October 23, 2020 at 8:10pm

[nitpicker]

16. That's why it took so long to get my receipt today

It took 10 minutes for the staff to print a receipt at the Fairlington Community Center because the power outage had switched the printer off.