If you’re reading this right now, you’re one of the lucky people in D.C. with electricity right now. A power outage at a Pepco substation on 10th Street NW has cut electricity to about 10,000 customers in the middle of the city, and at several Metro stations near downtown. Power is currently out at the Duport Circle, Shaw, Farragut North, Farragut West and McPherson Square stations. Trains are still moving at those stations, but the lack of electricity means that only emergency lights are on there, plus fare card machines, elevators and escalators are not working.

But that’s not all! The Red line is experiencing major delays this morning since crews were checking a report of smoke on the tracks at Metro Center. A minor fire was reported around 7:40 a.m. — that situation has since been resolved, but trains in both directions were sharing a single track between Judiciary Square and Farragut North, so everything on the Red line is backed up and a mess.

WTOP says it will be a minimum of an hour before the Pepco outage is resolved.

Please, please don’t say that I cursed us all.

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