Power Outtage in Lusby?

[Ken King]

Heat rises

:dur:

 

[Penn]

:dur:

Hey? Didn't I see you on the Mall last Thursday holding up a sign protesting Bush?

 

[kwillia]

www.smeco.com

SMECO is experiencing power outages in southern Calvert County. Approximately 20,000 customers were affected earlier today by a fault on the submarine transmission line that crosses the Patuxent River at the Thomas Johnson bridge. The fault occurred on the St. Mary’s County side of the Patuxent River near Solomons.

As of 5:30 p.m., about 3,000 customers were still without power.

SMECO expects to restore power to all customers by this evening by re-routingpower using a transmission line located in the central part of the county near Prince Frederick.

Additional outages occurred at the Mutual and St. Leonard substations. Those customers are being restored. Customers who have power are asked to conserve energy to assist in the restoration process. When power lines are energized, restoration has to occur in sections to prevent overloading the power line and substation.

Calvert County emergency management has opened a “warming center” at Calvert High School for residents without power. Residents may call 410-535-3014 for more information.

Further information will be made available as repairs are made and customers are restored.

 

[BadGirl]

Wonder who this could of been? Power is back, as of about 4:30, but the heatpumps can't catch back up,STILL 62 degree s in the house!

Ha ha ha. I never lost power, and my gas fireplace has been pumping out enough heat to have the thermostat sit at about 74 degrees all day long. It's been wonderful.

 

[Ken King]

Hey? Didn't I see you on the Mall last Thursday holding up a sign protesting Bush?

Nah, that was some dweeb that works for Staples.

 

[Penn]

Nah, that was some dweeb that works for Staples.

Uh-huh. Just checking.

You saw the Eagles won?

 

[Sharon]

Our power was out for 9 hours and we never dipped below 65* - with only one (we have 2) kerosene heater going in the basement most of the day.

 

[Penn]

Our power was out for 9 hours and we never dipped below 65* - with only one (we have 2) kerosene heaters going in the basement most of the day.

Thank goodness for them! I saw a bunch of people filling up kerosene containers at the Sheets on Rte 235 yesterday.

Otter was just asking for your phone # earlier to see if you guys were OK.

 

[Ken King]

Uh-huh. Just checking.

You saw the Eagles won?

Yeah, saw it. How did the Giants do? Oh that's right they're sitting at home with the same record as the Skins.

 

[Penn]

Yeah, saw it. How did the Giants do? Oh that's right they're sitting at home with the same record as the Skins.

Yeah, we're adopting the same motto as the 'Skins:

"Well, there's always next year!"

 

[crabcake]

Yeah, we're adopting the same motto as the 'Skins:

"Well, there's always next year!"

 

[Katie]

I had no power most of yesterday. The temperature got down to about 50 degress in the house. I stayed in blankets most of the day. The dogs were also under the blankets!!! My electric came back on about 3:30 yesterday.

 

[ohstate]

Our power was out in Lusby until about midnight. They had all but 500 houses repaired by 8 p.m. last night (at least that is what SMECO said when I called). They could have had the power back on at my house earlier but they refused to bring everyone back on line at the same time, fear of overloading the system. So my house was very cold and without water for ages. They said a major underwater line (under the Pax river) failed, and they were diverting power from other lines to southern Calvert to get everyone back up. I don't have warm fuzzies for SMECO right now, being one of the last to get power. The lines were fine, because we would get power occasionally during the day - for a minute or two- then it would shut off again. They were just taking their time bringing up the grid. Nothing like living 6 miles from a nuke plant, and having my power brought to me by failing underwater lines from across the river.

 

[willie]

Just curious, did our local radio stations have any updates or anything at all during the outage? The several times I tuned in, it was just music and hourly national news.

 

[CableChick]

Just curious, did our local radio stations have any updates or anything at all during the outage? The several times I tuned in, it was just music and hourly national news.

I flipped through the 3 local stations over the course of 2 hours and never once heard an update when their local news is supposed to come on. I'm sure we'll hear about it tomorrow!

 

[ohstate]

WTOP mentioned it around 4 p.m. for the first time that I heard. Said most residents would be restored by 5 p.m and that there were warming centers set up (but never mentioned where they were). I don't know how you're supposed to get information in SoMD when you don't have power and only a battery operated radio. Radio is useless down here.

 

[jazz lady]

Nothing like living 6 miles from a nuke plant, and having my power brought to me by failing underwater lines from across the river.

Sucks, doesn't it. Unfortunately, all the power generated at Calvert Cliffs goes up the road.