Power Outage Hits Hundreds of Hill East Homes

by Andrea Swalec March 2, 2015 at 8:55 am 4 Comments

Candles (Photo via Flickr/curiouskiwi)

(Updated at 4:35 p.m.) With temperatures below freezing, a stretch of Hill East is without electricity again after lights first flickered off last night.

More than 500 Pepco customers in the southeast corner of Capitol Hill, just west of Congressional Cemetery, are without electricity. The first outages were reported about 6 p.m. Sunday and included about 625 customers.

Workers restored service about 10 a.m. Monday, Pepco spokesman Bob Hainey said. Then, electricity disappeared again about 1 p.m.

Traffic signals at Pennsylvania and Potomac avenues SE were also not working.

On Twitter, residents voiced their frustration about the continued outages.

Underground cables were affected by flooding near Pennsylvania and Potomac avenues SE, the Pepco spokesman said this morning.

The latest service restoration time is no later than 5:30 p.m. Work was previously expected to take until 8 p.m.

Photo via Flickr/curiouskiwi

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