For about two hours last night, about 1,300 Pepco customers near Suburban Hospital were without power.
Many didn’t understand why, but Pepco spokesperson Marcus Beal said an underground fault is to blame. Homes and traffic signals were without power along Old Georgetown Road from about 7 p.m. to 9:07 p.m., when Pepco repaired the fault, Beal said.
A Pepco crew was working this morning along northbound Old Georgetown Road near NIH.
