Time To Buy Some Candles and Flashlights

Pepco reports that nearly 500 customers in their service area -- a large concentration of which are in Northeast D.C. -- are still without power this morning after last night's lengthy storm. In their usual "weather was bad, eh!" report this morning, the Post notes that at a minimum, 28,000 homes and businesses lost power overnight. To think: without electricity, you wouldn't have been able to watch ESPNNEWS on repeat for three hours waiting for the Nationals game to resume play on MASN! (Wait, just me? Never mind, then.) Considering this upcoming forecast, this probably won't be the last time Pepco technicians will be out and about fixing large power outages due to thunderstorms this week.