Washington Blackout

A small plane crashed into power lines in the US state of Maryland last night, triggering a widespread power outage in Montgomery county, reported Washington Post citing local authorities.

Over the weekend, Swift fans thought they had figured it out - Swift was in a social-media blackout, so that's like an eclipse ... so she must be releasing music Monday, during the solar eclipse! Not a bad theory

It was a hard month, my fifth on the night shift. I was averaging about three or four hours of sleep a day, much of it fitful and fractured by wild dreams brought on by the melatonin supplements I was taking, and I'd woken up just two hours after going to bed. Summer sunlight streamed around the edges of the blackout screens fastened to my windows.

Electrical outages can lead to ripple effects that leave communities struggling with things like transportation and communication.

The fact that a severed transmission line in Maryland could cut power to much of the nation's capital became the latest warning sign that the country's ageing electrical grid can't meet modern demands.

The US Capitol building and other iconic Washington landmarks briefly went dark on Wednesday as powerful wind gusts also caused tens of thousands of people in the area to lose power.

A powerful storm hit the U.S. capital on Friday, downing trees with wind gusts of up to 79 miles per hour (127 kph), topping hurricane force levels and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes in the Washington area.

A small plane crashed into power lines in the US state of Maryland last night, triggering a widespread power outage in Montgomery county, reported Washington Post citing local authorities.

Over the weekend, Swift fans thought they had figured it out - Swift was in a social-media blackout, so that's like an eclipse ... so she must be releasing music Monday, during the solar eclipse! Not a bad theory

It was a hard month, my fifth on the night shift. I was averaging about three or four hours of sleep a day, much of it fitful and fractured by wild dreams brought on by the melatonin supplements I was taking, and I'd woken up just two hours after going to bed. Summer sunlight streamed around the edges of the blackout screens fastened to my windows.

Electrical outages can lead to ripple effects that leave communities struggling with things like transportation and communication.

The fact that a severed transmission line in Maryland could cut power to much of the nation's capital became the latest warning sign that the country's ageing electrical grid can't meet modern demands.

The US Capitol building and other iconic Washington landmarks briefly went dark on Wednesday as powerful wind gusts also caused tens of thousands of people in the area to lose power.

A powerful storm hit the U.S. capital on Friday, downing trees with wind gusts of up to 79 miles per hour (127 kph), topping hurricane force levels and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes in the Washington area.