Not too long ago (just right after Noon, EDT), the power went off, and the sirens were triggered at the U.S. Capitol. Everyone was forced to evacuate.
Electricity was restored about half an hour later but officials decided to keep the building evacuated until the cause of the outage was determined, said Bob Stevenson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
The reason for the ruckus?
Mary-Beth Hutchinson, a spokeswoman for Potomac Electric Power Co., said the electricity was shut off automatically after there was "a momentary drop in voltage due to customer operations up the lines" away from the Capitol.
"The protective equipment sensed the significant change in voltage and tripped," she said.
Time to send in Jack Bauer to defeat the power terrorists!
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