My daughter just got back from Arundel Mills Mall and said it was a very scary scene. All power out at the mall and everyone was evacuating. They were fine once outside but the eerie darkness mixed with the flashing police car lights had them spooked!

Sometime in the early 90's, give or take, we were coming back from Severna Park... it was around dusk, getting darker, and saw a bright flash from somewhere near Annapolis. As we pulled into downtown Annapolis, the lights in West Annapolis were out, pulling into downtown, the only lights were our headlights across the buildings.

We parked near the public bathrooms and wandered around. Eventually ending up on St Johns campus where all the students were filing out of the buildings, had a small bonfire going, battery powered radios playing music, and a giant trashcan (with clean liner) being filled with orange juice and vodka by the gallon.

I don't remember when the power came back on, but it was a fun night. :)

BTW.. the prognosis back then, if I recall, was something along the lines of "raccoon in a substation". But who knows what it really was. I assume the lights we saw were similar to the lights seen tonight, a substation having serious issues.

Saw it, it was spooky. Does anyone know what exploded?

Any idea for the reason of this black out?

Over a decade after terrorists attacks and the county still is incapable of posting to the web or alerting us citizens what the hell is going on.

Have they never heard of Twitter?

I live in the odenton area. My lights flickered for a bit but I didn't know about this! Blizzar story...IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!

We were in Parole when it happened and it looked like a transformer blew over by the mall.

What caused it?

That wont freak your kid out saying it's the end of the world .?

I live at the haven by the Odenton traffic circle and not even a flicker.

http://thegazette.com/2012/12/20/man-reports-astonishing-lights-in-the-sky-over-cedar-rapids/

Glad that our leadership has nothing more to offer than "I've never seen anything like this."

This Is All GODS Plan

Im wondering why there is no news or explanation

Trevor- that story is hilarious! Gotta love college students.

Someone hit a power station with their car off Bestgate.

Video I got:
http://youtu.be/lEyaO1HC-38

Got a tweet from BGE not long after patch tweet saying they lost the trunk lines.

First time EVER they had anything to say to me aside from you owe us money. Lol

!2-21-12 anything could happen but nothing probably will with a few exceptions.Good luck staying warm tonight people.Peace.

Its a pre-armageddon warning. Just wait till Friday night.......... !!!

A perfect storm: a convergence of the zombie apocalypse and the Mayan meltdown. No hope for humanity! Head for the hills people!

We just left Arundel Mills after seeing The Hobbit. Movie started at 9:30 and all power was on, we didn't even know what was going on till I read this post.

Standard power outage. Lights went out at 9p, came back at 11:30 or so. It would be nice if BGE had a communications plan that posted status and post mortems in more detail than their power outage map.

My whole-house generator failed to start ... dead battery ... there's a lesson to be learned here.

Enjoy the Holidays!

I was standing outside the Annapolis mall when this happened. It was definitely a blown transformer. Then another one blew about a hundred yards away.

Patch editors were at a holiday celebration ... we'd actually put our phones away for a little while and suddenly I had a slew of missed calls and text messages. Luckily, we were at a restaurant adjacent to a hotel in the northern part of the county so we took over the business center to turn it into our own personal newsroom and went to work to find out what was happening!

I was standing in my living room when I saw these flashes of light. I thought it was lightning at first, but then when I looked across the river, it was definitely coming from one area. I couldn't believe how it lit up the sky. Crazy & scary. Never seen anything like that!

You'd think Annapolis Mall, (as I refer to it), would have a backup generator with some emergency lighting ..... can't imagine it doesn't. I'll bet the cell phone flashlights came in handy! Happy Holidays everyone!

It's all Dubya's fault. (humor, don't be hating....)

I have lived in Annapolis for 15 years and it continues to amaze me how weak the power grid / infrastructure is here. Whenever the wind blows the power goes out. Residents in Anne Arundel county pay a high cost of living and the capital of Maryland can't even keep the lights on. In this case the leaders can't even tell you what caused the problem. You can't make this stuff up....incredible.

www.capitolofmaryland.com

Video of Power outage phenomenon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNDBHbPFO9Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Video if power outage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNDBHbPFO9Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I don't think this one was posted yet... a friend sent this to me this morning (he didn't take it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPN0wu9c25s

Witnessed this driving home form the Annapolis Mall with my daughter. Spooky!

Can't trust those aliens..always starting trouble.

Interesting that these lights appear to be the same lights I've witnessed in Dallas, Texas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; always appearing in intense thunderstorms. I've no evidence but appear to be a man made phenomena, that is, H.A.A.R.P.. Ground becomes saturated with huge amounts of electricity and attempts to discharge into air. Appears now it can be controlled to knock out power plants.

I think BGE and Anne Arundel county or the State of Maryland owes the citizens an explanation about the root cause of the outage. It is unbelievable that there has been little information from anyone about this.

I measured around 10-15 Volt sag in power in Piney Orchard, but there was no outage.

havent you been paying attention or have you been brainwashed by the media
solar flares.

Aurora borealis? A wayward comet? Terrorists? Anti-terrorists? Magic? One thing is certain, those powers that be don't tell folks the truth anymore, so feel free to improvise.

We had the same thing happen in South Baltimore. Around like 10:30 there was a loud bang out side and everything went black. People were looking out their doors and all of south baltimore was black. People were starting to freak a little then there was another boom, turns out a transformer blew and the power kept going on and off for like an hour or so.

What we generally attribute to a transformer blowing is more often a fuse blowing. They also make a loud bang. Bright flashes before the fuse blows is often caused by the uninsulated wires shorting against each other, usually because a tree limb fell against them. The resulting short circuit causes the fuse to blow, isolating the damaged area from other circuits until it can be repaired. I'm not asserting that was the case in this instance, but when you see a bright flash and hear a bang, don't automatically assume it's a transformer. Fortunately it's much quicker to replace a fuse than a transformer.

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