Power outage hits Washington, D.C. the day before the midterms. Pepco says an event at its I Street Substation in Foggy Bottom left about 1,100 customers without power. Outage maps listed 1,176. The area is blocks from the White House. Traffic lights and some federal facilities, including the State Department, were affected. DC Fire and EMS responded to smoke from multiple manholes on H Street NW. One manhole reportedly exploded in front of the World Bank. Pepco said the cause was under investigation and gave no restoration time at first. By the afternoon, the main outage was largely resolved.

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Power Outages Hit 1176 Pepco customers in Foggy Bottom and Downtown - PoPville

see the interactive map here Update from Pepco 2:12pm: "power has now been restored to all impacted customers." Update from Pepco 1:46pm: "Pepco cr...