Though some in the D.C. area are still without power, outages are dwindling after severe weather battered the region on Friday with heavy rain and strong winds.
In Virginia, Dominion Energy reports that nearly 600 customers are still out in Fairfax County, as of Sunday morning. Nearly 350 customers are still out in Alexandria City, and another 16 in Arlington. Power has been fully restored to customers in Loudoun County.
“(The storm) came by so fast,” Aisha Khan, media and community relations manager with Dominion Energy, told WTOP. “In that little time, (it) caused a lot of damage. We saw a lot of downed trees, tree limbs, some of our poles were broken, cross arms were broken.”
In Maryland, about 233 Pepco customers and 23 BGE customers are without power in Prince George’s County Sunday, 300 customers in Anne Arundel County and 34 BGE customers in Montgomery County.
“Our crews have been working around the clock since these storms rolled through yesterday evening to safely and quickly restore power to our customers that have been impacted,” Chuck McDade, a senior communications specialist with Pepco, told WTOP Saturday.
There was a single outage in the District as of Sunday morning, but it isn’t clear if that’s related to the storm.
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Dominion said crews and contractors are in the area to assist from outside regions.
“We expect nearly all of these customers to be restored by (Sunday). There’s a chance some may linger into Monday, that’s due to the complexity of this restoration effort, widespread damage across our system, across our entire service territory, trees, trees, tree limbs, a lot of system damage,” Nick Alexopulos, senior manager of communications at BGE, told WTOP Saturday.
The damaging storms packed 80 mph wind gusts and heavy rain, which led to numerous downed trees and downed wires across the region.
Two people died in Fairfax County, Virginia — one in the Woodlawn area, near Hybla Valley, and another on the George Washington Parkway in the area of Morningside Lane — after a tree fell onto their vehicles.
Several trees fell onto homes in Frederick and Montgomery counties in Maryland and Fairfax County in Virginia. Ground stops were also put into effect Friday until 9 p.m. at Reagan National Airport and Baltimore Washington International Airport.
Severe weather lashed other areas of the U.S. as well.
Storm systems sweeping across parts of the Midwest and South have left at least 23 people dead, many of them in Kentucky, where what appeared to be a devastating tornado crumbled buildings and flipped over a car on an interstate.
In Kentucky, some 14 people were killed by severe weather, and the death toll is likely to rise, according to Gov. Andy Beshear. Local authorities in Laurel County, in the state’s southeast, said nine people were killed after a tornado touched down.
Power outages
7News First Alert Forecast
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs between 77 and 81.
Winds: Northwest 10-20 mph
SUNDAY NIGHT: Clear. Lows between 55 and 62.
Winds: Northwest 5-10 mph
MONDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs between 75 and 80.
Winds: North 10-20 mph
TUESDAY: Increasing clouds. Highs between 67 and 73.
Winds: North 5-10 mph
WEDNESDAY: Showers and storms. Highs between 62 and 68.
Winds: East 10-15 mph
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WTOP’s Thomas Robertson and The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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