Minneapolis power outage?

[shockingelk]

I just got an email saying that most of Minneapolis is without power right now - including all of downtown.

What is up with that? Can anybody confirm? I have electricity ...

[MinneapolisMatt]

1. funny you should ask!

I was just going to reply to the Minnesota check-in thread around 12:30 am tonight, when the power did indeed go out for about 30 seconds.

But it's up and running again!

Matt :)

[MinneapolisMatt]

2. Oops, forgot to add...

I live in Uptown Minneapolis. All seems normal here.

[shockingelk]

4. welcome to DU, neighbor!

I'm in Uptown near Jefferson Elementary.

[UL_Approved]

3. Are you serious?

What a fine conspiracy theory this makes. Doubt it has too much to do with the KSTP story, but you never know. If it is, just further proof of the insanity of Bush's agenda.

(Edit:)
I guess I took to long to post before, just ignore this for now.

[Kilroy003]

5. I called my workplace in downtown

Co-worker said there has been no power outages tonight. None, at least, that he noticed.

[MinneapolisMatt]

6. A little bit creepy...

So after I posted, we had another brief outtage (about 2-3 minutes).

Then at about 3:30 am, it went out for a full hour! Just got back online.

I mean, we had some rain, but nothing extraordinary. Strange.



Keeping my fingers crossed so I can actually get some crap done,

Matt

[Nobody]

8. I live very close to downtown and the answer is no

I did not wake up to blinking numbers on the alarm clock

[myrna minx]

7. I live in Uptown and I didn't notice any power outages.

If there were, I can guarantee that I wouldn't have made it to work because I would still be sleeping. :-)

[myrna minx]

9. My sister reports that her power has been out

since 3:00 am. She lives over by the Bryant Lake Bowl. I guess there was a green flash, and some trees started to smolder. I guess the Fire Dept and Xcel are on the scene right now.

[northernsoul]

10. I'm downtown right now

this is news to me

I was just at the Target on Nicollet Mall too, everything was fine there.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. The lights flickered off briefly in Linden Hills last night

but they came right back on.

:shrug:

[no name no slogan]

12. We went out some time last night during a storm

around 2:00-3:00 AM, probably. We came back up shortly thereafter.


EDIT TO ADD: I live in Bryn Mawr, about 1 mile straight west of DT Minneapolis (by Theo. Wirth Park).