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...thought there would have been a large snowball fight or something," said Dan Alvarado '89, who was driving a shuttle bus during the blackout. Instead, Alvarado said, the Quad was "very quiet. I wonder what they were doing...
...Currier House, the hallway lights came on again almost instantly. "People were studying in the halls or not studying in the halls," said Linda J. Halliday '88, who manned the Currier House desk by candlelight during the blackout...
...Reading Period blackout occurred a little after 9:30 p.m. and ended at 10:20 p.m., according to Dave F. DesRoches, district service manager for Commonwealth Electric Co. The Quad was the only customer affected, he said...
DesRoches said the blackout was caused by a "mechanical failure" of one of the power breakers. "It was like a big fuse problem...
Last night's outage follows a short electricity surge on Monday which cut off power in the Quad for seconds. According to DesRoches, the blackout occurred while a workman was trying to resurrect a fallen cable...