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[dreamgirly19.livejournal.com]

So I called Nstar and they told me a car hit a major line and they didnt know how long it would be down for. Ten mins later the power came on...I took a look around here but I didnt see any accident. Did any of you or do you guys know the "real reason" such as Nstar sucks lol. Our power keeps flashing off and on too which is strange.

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[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

No idea. My power hasn't gone off at all this evening. *knocks wood*

[ad-lib.livejournal.com]

ohhhh if this happened on rogers ave my roommates TOTALLY going to think that our power got shut off. *snickers*

[tarkap.livejournal.com]

There was a nstar truck on Curtis St near Teele, but I'm not sure if he was fixing anything or just checking stuff. I wasn't near it when the power went on/off/on.

The weird thing was that even though all my networking stuff was on UPS, RCN apparently wasn't. I seem to remember last power outage still having internet access, so I wonder what happened with RCN. It's working now though :)

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

There were sirens going down Holland St. shortly after the power went off. The story they gave you sounds plausible enough to me. I mean, sucks that the infrastructure is that vulnerable, but I don't find that surprising at all.


That said, demand is certainly at its highest when the temperature is like it is tonight, and maybe overloaded systems are a factor too. (Perhaps they could have coped with the major line being down on a cooler night.)

FWIW, The power didn't flash at all here (Davis Square side of Teele) -- just went off and then back on again after a while. Flashing on and off isn't particularly strange either when they're trying to repair/route-around a problem.

Anyway, sounds like you're from somewhere where this doesn't happen all the time. :)

[dreamgirly19.livejournal.com]

Yea I walked by there. I live on russell road.

Our internet never works during power outtages...I have RCN too :)

[dreamgirly19.livejournal.com]

Their demand isnt even near peak. The last time they were even close was last august 2nd ( i was peaking around trying to find info bout tonight and found that info lol).

I live off Broadway/Russell Road and our power def came on and off after it came back "on"". Power outtages dont bother me, I was just more curious. I also never experienced the flashing off and on before. I came from CA rolling blackouts are something I know quite well :)

[inkscarred.livejournal.com]

Power went off twice tonight over near Tufts.

[ron_newman]

I'm not seeing any of this here on Day Street. A few summers ago, this kind of weather would regularly cause transformer explosions and blackouts on Orchard St.

[dreamgirly19.livejournal.com]

However it isnt weather. According to the news and Nstar tonight they arent even near peak usage by any means so that def isnt it. I wonder what it was and where the accident was, im nosy tonight.

[dreamgirly19.livejournal.com]

near me :)

[xxv.livejournal.com]

I just had a flicker over on Highland Rd. It was off for under a minute.

[lena-a-mermaid.livejournal.com]

I was coming home around 9 and noticed the lights were off starting just about at the fire station in Teele Square and continued off up Curtis just about up to the Medford line. There was an NStar truck with a guy in the box that takes him up to the top of the poles. The time my clock stopped was at about 8:40 I think. The electricity came on again at 9:22 and then went off again for less than a minute sometime between 9:30 and 10:00.

[lcmayer.livejournal.com]

We have no power over here on morrison ave

[aki.livejournal.com]

We lost power here on Broadway near Powderhouse, or so my roommate tells me.

[ceo]

We lost power repeatedly last night, for at least 5 half-hour-or-so outages. I was going to post here yelling at people to suck it up and turn their air conditioners off, but if they weren't near peak, I wonder what was going on?

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

I've been losing power off and on for the past several days. I suspect the real reason is the heat wave -- everyone's who's got A/C is cranking it and Nstar can't keep up.

[lac.livejournal.com]

Power on and off ALL night..gave up on A/C. Very very cranky this morning.

[greenbeats.livejournal.com]

ditto to all the last comments. i saw this earlier in the evening and hadn't lost power, so i was thinking we were lucky. but we had a five minute or so flicker around 10:00 (on pearson) and then the power was on and off (but mostly off) all night until like 6:00 am. that wasn't the best nights sleep, to say the least.

[ceo]

Oh, and I'm on Prichard Ave.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Just because the entire power grid isn't at peak load doesn't mean neighborhood lines and transformers won't have problems.

Power on Endicott

[nora-rocket.livejournal.com]

On Endicott just outside of Teele we lost power from *about* 15 'til 9:00 (as I was walking up Holland all the streetlights went out and things got momentarily creepy) until about 20 past 9:00, then again about 10 minutes later for about 30 seconds. That was all she wrote for flashes, though, as the alarm clock this morning gave me an accurate reflection of the time, indicating it had been powered all through the night.

I lit a ton of candles, opened & closed the fridge as quickly as possible to grab a beer, powered up the laptop CD player, and did me some very romantic dishes by candlelight...

[eeyorecol.livejournal.com]

I'm on Simpson and our power was out for a full two hours. My husband and I gave up on sitting in the backyard and went to JP Licks. While walking down Holland, we noticed that there was an NStar truck on the corner of Holland and Buena Vista, and that the pole on that corner looked really bent (about 20 degrees from vertical), so that could be where they got the story from. Teele and the hill on the other side of Broadway got power back a lot sooner than the triangle from Orleans to Paulina...

[thedoubleduches.livejournal.com]

I knew someone here would know what happened last night! Thanks for the info. :) On Burnham Street (off B'way by Powderhouse) our power was out from roughly 8:45 - 10:00 pm, putting an end to doing homework for the night. Aw, shucks. ;)

We had Brownouts in Arlington

[jaybrewer.livejournal.com]

Low power voltage dips - did anyone else hear their ac units working hard or other appliances? It also fried our cheap battery UPS