The identical extreme climate that downed bushes, flooded roads and killed not less than two individuals on Friday led greater than 2 million individuals in D.C., Maryland and Virginia to lose energy on Friday evening.
By mid-morning Saturday, tens of hundreds of individuals have been nonetheless ready for his or her energy to return again on — and a few might have to attend till Sunday and even Monday.
As of 11 a.m. Saturday, Pepco mentioned that 2,700 of its clients have been nonetheless with out energy. That is nonetheless a marked lower from 9:45 p.m. on Friday, when 518 outages left not less than 18,403 Pepco clients with out energy.
Dominion Power mentioned, as of 11 a.m., greater than 24,000 Northern Virginia clients have been left with out energy. That is nonetheless only a quarter of the 86,927 clients that noticed outages at 9:45 p.m. on Friday.
In keeping with Dominion Power, a lot of the Northern Virginia outages are concentrated in Fairfax County.
As of 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, greater than 17,000 BGE clients throughout simply central Maryland have been nonetheless with out energy. The toughest hit areas have been Howard, Carroll and Baltimore Counties and Baltimore Metropolis, in response to a press launch from the corporate.
BGE expects to have energy restored to 80% of the 74,200 whole clients affected by outages by 8 p.m. on Saturday, the discharge mentioned. Most clients will see energy return by midnight on Sunday, however some areas with “in depth injury” might proceed with out energy into Monday.
The ability outages depart many individuals with out air con on a day that temperatures are anticipated to achieve the mid-80s.
Site visitors can be transferring slowly in Northern Virginia, particularly in Previous City Alexandria. Alexandria police mentioned on social media that entry and exit to I-395 from Seminary Street was closed because of energy outages.
“E/W journey is open however very sluggish,” Alexandria Police mentioned. “A number of intersections alongside Seminary & Duke stay with out energy. Van Dorn stays closed in each N/S instructions. Use different routes.”
The extreme climate that whipped by means of the D.C. space on Friday evening took down bushes throughout the area and flooded some roads. Hail, wind, and lightning all pummeled the DMV because the fast-moving storms poured down gallons of water.
Two individuals in Northern Virginia have been killed by falling bushes. One was a girl in her automobile within the Mount Vernon and Woodlawn space. The opposite was somebody of their automobile on the GW Parkway close to Morningside Lane.
Neither has been recognized to the general public but.
