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Re: Washington DC power failures

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Mon Oct 22 16:29:29 2001

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 16:19:18 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0110221611080.16964-100000@clifden.donelan.com> from "Sean Donelan" at Oct 22, 2001 04:13:48 PM
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Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
> 
> 
> 
> Washington DC power company PEPCO had more underground
> fires at 17th and M streets NW.  This has affected
> some circuits out of carriers with facilities on
> 1200 block of L street.

Note that PEPCO has just started a major rebuild of the much
damned system in Georgetown. It's supposed to take teraseconds to
complete since the local merchants:

	Don't want any outages

	Don't want any street construction 
	during the business day

	Don't want any noise or dirt...



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