Power outage hits Washington DC's Foggy Bottom, over 1,100 Pepco customers affected

Power outage hits Washington DC. More than 1,100 customers lost electricity in parts of Washington, DC, on Monday, November 2, after a power outage affected the Foggy Bottom and downtown areas, according to reports.The disruption affected 1,176 Pepco customers, with the outages concentrated in Foggy Bottom, an area that is home to the US State Department. Some affected locations were also a few blocks from the White House, the Wall Street Journal reported.Emergency crews responded after smoke was reported coming from multiple manholes. One incident was described as a manhole explosion directly in front of the World Bank building.Pepco said the probable cause of the outage was a failure at one of its substations. The utility was assessing the situation and had not provided a confirmed restoration timeline in the available reports.The outage came a day before Election Day, when voters across the country were preparing to cast their ballots in the midterm elections.DC power outage impacts GW University: DetailsPotomac Electric Power Company initially estimated power to be restored around 11 am. But officials later revised the estimated time to "pending assessment". The outage’s bounda...