Coin Bureau|Nov 02, 2026 17:25
🚨ALARMING: Power outage hits Washington, D.C., a day before the U.S. midterm elections.
Nearly 80,000 customers are WITHOUT power across the U.S., including outages in Washington, D.C., per PowerOutage's data.
- Pepco reports 1,176 customers without power in Foggy Bottom, just blocks from the White House.
- Traffic lights and federal facilities, including the State Department, are affected.
- A substation failure is the probable cause. No restoration time is confirmed.
- The outage affected about 1,800 customers near Morristown and voting sites in Wittmann and Circle City.
- Brief AT&T connectivity issues also affected some voter check-in devices.
- Officials said 99% were functioning and no voters were turned away.
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