Hi Frens,
I'm in swamp sprawl and my apartment building and buildings around mine quietly lost power for 45 minutes last night. Interesting, huh? A test run? Some sort of high speed event? I live near a military base and there was also a very loud bugle call at 11 PM last night, I've heard bugle calls before from the base but I can't recall hearing one at 11 and I can't recall ever hearing one so loud.
Interesting indeed. do we have any other anons that live in Washington? we could use eyes on events in the next few days. Its gonna be a full blown media blackout this might be the only way to stay up to date. Maybe we should start a thread for on the ground reporting.
I should clarify that I am not in an "interesting" part of the swamp. I am in a quiet residential neighborhood, although I am near a military base.
We lost internet here for a little bit a few nights ago. I may be able to check logs to get the exact times/date if lots of people are reporting similar things.
About the bugle call being loud - it's quieter at night and sounds travel further/louder when it's cold.
Re bugle call, absolutely sound travel further in the cold. But what's notable was that it's been roughly the same temperature at night for two months and I haven't heard the bugle in the same conditions.
Ears threshold changes at night while everything gets quieter (include es electronical noise, cars, ambience events, etc ), so it's normal to hear things louder, but depends always then loud how much,
To make the test you can easily put a song on hifi in the afternoon, leave it at a specific volume where you can hear it well but not so loud, notice the difference as the hours are passing, you'll keep hearing always louder
Of course sound is different at night. But I'm always in the same spot at 11 PM at night and I've never heard a bugle before at 11PM at night.
I was thinking how hillarious it would be for people like us to go through a normal power outage at this time... did you think it was go time!?
I thought nothing except, "I have lived in this apartment three years and the power has never before so much as fluttered." How many coincidences....?
First time looking forward to a power outage since we were in grade school. Hoping it won't last too long, of course.
The night that the IA was reportedly signed, my lights went out for short periods of times multiple different times, only adding to my buying in to the excitement of something happening.
Then I figured it's probably the snow. We hardly ever get snow where I live in Texas.
Yeah, I should clarify, we had no irregular weather events where I live last night. So, it's an interesting data point if nothing else. And who knows, your blackouts might have been interesting as well.
We may never know... but then again we may.
Blackouts are an interesting thing, less a weapon aimed at dissident people within the armed forces I think.. and more likely to be something aimed at big tech. If you have a lot of datacentres near where you live with google/facebook/AWS footprints (not that these things are advertised generally) then that's the likely battlefield for using power and service outages to take out enemy assets.
Bottom line, dont park your car near any generators which you have never seen used, its a time that they will probably be fired up for backup power when things get hot.. and will also be targets for that reason.
Our area was without electricity for a few miles in either direction this past Friday night. Apparently, "a switch turned off" by itself. Usually, electricity pops back on fairly quickly. This night it took 4 hours. Kind of odd if a switch just "turned off", don't you think?
That's VERY interesting. Are you in a rural or urban area?
medium sized town +/- 30,000 people
Very interesting! Someone on here speculated that maybe power was being shut off along POTUS's flight path, which would make total sense.
By "quietly" you mean without exploding hand grenades, claymores, and gunfire right? Or maybe the neigbors just wernt screaming at each other again?
That's interesting! Was that last night?
So interesting! That might explain why the power was only out 45 minutes for me.