Power outage strikes central campus
Sudden surge prompts officials to shut down electricity in some areas to avoid major blackout
The outage — which lasted less than 20 minutes in some areas and several hours in others, according to some student reports — did not appear to seriously interfere with University operations, officials said. But while some students shrugged the outage off, others who lost power in their dormitories said they were concerned with the vulnerabilities in Yale’s electrical grid.
Facilities officials were still compiling the details as of Thursday evening, but the blackout appeared largely to affect central campus buildings, including Old Campus and Branford, Jonathan Edwards, Davenport,...
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