For thousands of customers in Alexandria’s West End, power is still out after last night’s storms.
According to Dominion Energy’s power outage map, 3,703 customers in the West End — from the border with Shirlington down to the Van Dorn Metro station — are currently without power.
The outages are broken into two sections, with an unfortunate handful of homes near Hammond Middle School caught in the overlap. The northern half of the outage has been identified as being caused by a blown circuit and work crews are currently dispatched to fix the problem. For the southern half, the cause is still under investigation.
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@ChuckBell4 @nbcwashington Storms in Alexandria, Trees Snapped and Down! #storm #Severe Thunderstorm Watch #onstorm @dougkammerer @GreenstreetNOVA pic.twitter.com/tkPTRAlZtx
— Stephen Carcamo (@scarcamoboom) May 26, 2021
Good morning! Clean-up and repair work is underway after last night's storms. Please be patient. If you come to an intersection with flashing or dark traffic lights,🚦 treat it as a stop sign.🛑
— Alexandria Police (@AlexandriaVAPD) May 27, 2021
Map via Dominion Energy
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