On Monday, Mayor Gray will sign a new bill into law that will put major power lines underground, hopefully preventing a repeat of summer 2012.

Almost a year to the day Port City Brewing Company lost power, jeopardizing a large quantity of its beer—yup, it lost power again.

That was scary, but it wasn’t a derecho.

A District government task force proposed a plan today to move outage-prone power lines underground in hopes of preventing extended blackouts like the one that followed last year’s derecho storm.

We had basically no snow in 2012, but Mother Nature more than made up for it by giving us an oddly hot and violently windy year.

At a press conference earlier this afternoon, Mayor Vince Gray led a round of applause for an entity many thought should never be deserving of such praise: Pepco.

After hundreds of thousands of Pepco customers suffered without power for as long as a week following the June 29 derecho storm that battered the D.C. area, the power company is actually planning ahead this time.

Still mad about Pepco’s shoddy performance after the June 29 derecho? The Office of the People’s Counsel wants to hear from you.

Not many Pepco customers were too impressed with how the utility performed after the June 29 derecho, a new poll finds.

The beer that violent weather created will be tapped today. Port City Brewing Company, the Alexandria brewery, is set to unveil its Derecho Common today at 3 p.m. in its tasting room.