Power Outage

[laynamarya.livejournal.com]

There appears to be a major power outage in Teele, Davis, and the surrounding areas. Many restaurants are closing down and a number of the traffic lights are not functioning. Be careful.

Comments

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Aw, shit. I hope it goes on soon, because I can't go home to put stuff from the freezer in a cooler with ice!

[uberjay.livejournal.com]

It's back on, as of ~10 minutes ago.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Sweet!

[mattdm [typekey.com] (from livejournal.com)]

There was a fire truck and a crowed of people in front of the Tufts Administration Building on Holland St. when we walked by a few minutes after the power went out. I wonder if that was related.

[ron_newman]

How long was the outage? Do I need to throw out the milk?

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

An entire workday in a sealed fridge does not spoilt milk make. Fridges are well insulated and maintain their temperate well if you're not opening the door to check on them.

milk

[mattdm [typekey.com] (from livejournal.com)]

Milk is likely to be fine for hours. Unless it's unpasteurized, you can even drink it if it's gone a bit bad without really much risk. Luckily, it's easy to smell it and find out. :)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I wonder what the area of the outage was. I'm very close to Davis, but on the College Ave side, and was not affected.

[disblfsuspender.livejournal.com]

Our power was definitely out on Gorham St. for most of the day. I figured it was the usual Nstar summer brownouts at first, but then I heard a bunch of sirens shortly after it went out, then more a few minutes later. I had to get to work, so I didn't have time to hang around and see what was going on.

[magid.livejournal.com]

There were traffic lights out on the other side of Porter around midday.

*crack!*

[cos]

I was at 126somethings this morning, up near Tufts, happily reading email when at sometime around 9:30 or 10, I heard a *crack!* like a distant explosion or a very quiet one across the street, and at the same moment, my Internet connection died. At first I didn't think they were related, it just occurred to me how much of a coincidence it was that the sound happened at the very same second as the network outage. But then dreams_of_wings pointed out that power was out too. When we drove off, an hour later, the lights at Powderhouse Square were dead, but at Broadway & Willow they were working.

Re: *crack!*

[ron_newman]

I ilve at Day and Orchard Streets. Until several years ago, a transformer next to my building would regularly explode on hot summer days. I would hear a sound like multiple gunshots, with the lights going off or back on at each shot. When the noise was over, the power would go out for good.

I still remember one week where this happened multiple nights in a row.

NStar eventually fixed something, because this stopped happening.

Less than 4 hours total

[lena-a-mermaid.livejournal.com]

The power went out at approximately 9:30 am and was back on by approximately 1:20 pm.

I called NSTAR to report it to their automated system. The system allowed me to enter a telephone number which NSTAR could call to give me updates on the outage. The automated system called me back at about 10:15 to give me an estimate of when the power would be back on (it said by 2:30 pm) and then called me again at 1:20 pm to tell me that power was restored.

[ron_newman]

I left home (on Day Street) around 11 am and the power had not failed there. The traffic light in Davis Square was still working then.