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White House, State Department Lose Power Due To Scattered Outages
CBS News ^ | 4/7/15

Posted on 04/07/2015 10:16:14 AM PDT by Kartographer

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WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — The White House and State Department lost power Tuesday afternoon due to scattered outages across the nation’s capital.

The power went out at the White House for nearly 10 seconds while the State Department conducted its press briefing in the dark.

(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dcpoweroutage; electricity; energy; harf; statedeptpoweroutage; whpoweroutage
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1 posted on 04/07/2015 10:16:14 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Marie Harf’s hair dryer affected, Homeland Security rushes in gen sets!


2 posted on 04/07/2015 10:17:23 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Kartographer

If only they had 100% green energy.....


3 posted on 04/07/2015 10:18:16 AM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: nascarnation

She’s blowing something besides her hair.....


4 posted on 04/07/2015 10:19:17 AM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: Kartographer

Best news I’ve heard this year.


5 posted on 04/07/2015 10:19:29 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Obama stands with ISIL and the Caliphate.)
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To: Kartographer

the State Department conducted its press briefing in the dark.

So, it was like any other State Department briefing?


6 posted on 04/07/2015 10:20:08 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Oh Noes! The government is shut down! Ted Cruze must have done this. I’m sure it was on the orders of George Bush and Dick Chenney.

Lock and Load! Bug out time! Catch ya on the flip side of civilization!


7 posted on 04/07/2015 10:20:39 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: clintonh8r

When it’s too dark for them to Harf us — do we have to worry about being Grubered?


8 posted on 04/07/2015 10:21:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: matthew fuller

Turn the damn lights off anway...Nobody’s home in D.C.!


9 posted on 04/07/2015 10:21:28 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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"So, it was like any other State Department briefing?"

No, this time instead of only the State Departments spokesperson being in the dark everyone there was in the dark. ;-)
10 posted on 04/07/2015 10:23:03 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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Wha’ hoppen? The wind generators and solar panels didn’t work? Maybe Obama tried to recharge his electric limo.


11 posted on 04/07/2015 10:23:36 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Mossad test complete.


12 posted on 04/07/2015 10:23:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Shut down some more coal fired power generation units.


13 posted on 04/07/2015 10:24:03 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: Iron Munro

Leave it off .....


14 posted on 04/07/2015 10:24:38 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: tet68

Yes!!!


15 posted on 04/07/2015 10:25:38 AM PDT by exnavy (An armed society is a polite society.)
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To: Kartographer

We need a photoshop of Ted Cruz standing by a giant power
breaker switch with a devious smile on his face, heh heh....

The Libs will Blame this “shutdown” on Cruz...


16 posted on 04/07/2015 10:26:43 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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OH THE HUMANITY!!! Somewhere in Washington there is a building full of people with no lights and Joe (Nasty Ol' Man) Biden is on the lose!!
17 posted on 04/07/2015 10:26:54 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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Mostly/entirely government buildings? Well, Obama promised big reductions in the government’s carbon footpring. Maybe they tried a dry run of Zero’s new renewable energy plan, and it turned out to be as ready as the Obamacare website.


18 posted on 04/07/2015 10:26:55 AM PDT by sphinx
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“White House, State Department Lose Power....”

I wish we could stop right here.


19 posted on 04/07/2015 10:32:15 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Kartographer
W.C. Fields is even having a WTF moment!
20 posted on 04/07/2015 10:32:22 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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