Power outages hit DC area

Kenny Nails working for Pepco, fixes wires downed during this weekend's snow storm to restore power to a neighborhood in Rockville, Md., on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. A massive snow storm hit the region Friday and Saturday, dumping 2 feet of snow in some places. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)(ASSOCIATED PRESS/Jacquelyn Martin)

WASHINGTON — Residents of the District in Northeast woke up to a shock Friday — thousands there were without power for hours, Pepco said.

The outage struck the New Hampshire Ave. and South Dakota Ave. NE areas around 5:30 a.m.

It then spread to portions of North Michigan Park and University Heights neighborhoods.

More outages were reported in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Dominion Energy said equipment failure was responsible for the Fairfax outage.

Pepco said equipment failures were also to blame for failures in the District.

Power was restored to both areas around 7:30 a.m.

The map below contains power outages in the Washington metro area. This map is updated every 10 minutes.

Will Vitka

William Vitka is a Digital Writer/Editor for WTOP.com. He's been in the news industry for over a decade. Before joining WTOP, he worked for CBS News, Stuff Magazine, The New York Post and wrote a variety of books—about a dozen of them, with more to come.

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