BGE is reporting approximately 10,000 power outages in Howard County as of 9 a.m. Tuesday.
That's down from 20,000 outages reported late Monday.
The number is constantly changing as restorations and other power outages occur.
The number of Maryland residents without power reached 75,000 just after 5 p.m. Monday, Gov. Martin O’Malley said at the Maryland Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Reisterstown.
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This, of course, is due to underground cables, and just sheer luck. For seven years. Silly rumors to the effect that this incredible string of luck has anything at all to do with any activities at the nearly nameless (except for the cryptic sign, "R and D"), barbwire-enclosed and guarded, blacked-out windowed, government facility that was built around seven years ago, immediately adjacent to Thunderhill, on Route 108, are of course, ...absurd.
Jeff