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My whole street lost power for exactly 17 minutes last Tuesday

Every single house on Maple Drive went dark at 3:14 PM. Not a flicker, just off. My neighbor, Karen, called the power company and they said there was no outage reported. Then, at 3:31 PM on the dot, everything came back on like nothing happened. The weird part? All our digital clocks were still set to the right time. Has anyone else had a short, unexplained blackout where the grid didn't even notice?
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wade_west56
Used to brush off these little blips as nothing. That exact thing happened here last fall, clocks stayed right and the utility had no record. Makes you wonder what's tripping off a whole block without leaving a trace.
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the_emma
the_emma23h ago
My buddy's apartment building had that happen. Every unit went dead for maybe ten minutes one afternoon. The super checked the main breaker and it hadn't tripped. All the microwaves and ovens just blinked like there was a quick reset, but the time was still perfect.
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anthony_wright
Sounds like the power company just took a really short nap.
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