Updated at 11:15 p.m. It took nearly five hours for the power to turn back on for thousands of Alexandria residents on a steamy Sunday night (May 22).
Alexandria got hit by a severe thunderstorm at around 6 p.m. At 8:36 p.m., Dominion Energy tweeted that there were more than 25,000 homes still without power in Northern Virginia.
According to Dominion Energy’s Outage Map:
- More than 1,300 residents experienced an outage in the Rosemont area
- There were about 2,600 outages in the Arlandria area
Jesse Thompson lives in a high rise Arlandria, and had no power or water for five hours.
“I’m doing about as well as I can right now,” Thompson said during the outage. “This is really something else.”
After a few rocky years outage-wise, Dominion has recently pledged to invest millions in Alexandria.
City Councilman Kirk McPike tweeted that Dominion Energy’s service “continues to be unacceptable.”
Households across Alexandria are suffering a blackout right now. Dominion’s service to our city continues to be unacceptable. You can report a power outage here: https://t.co/ix1t8rBFex pic.twitter.com/tqTvXDAMAm
— R. Kirk McPike (@KirkMcPike) May 22, 2022
There are over 3,300 @DominionEnergy customers presently experiencing an outage throughout the City.
Report outages at 866-366-4357 or online at https://t.co/P7thQdZmld pic.twitter.com/NTjOwWNcYZ
— Justin Wilson (@justindotnet) May 22, 2022
Fairfax Co has 9,284 outages.
Northern Va: 25,461 customer outages.We are in full storm-response with extra @DominionEnergy crews on the job.
We hope to bring service back to most by switching. But replacing downed poles wires will take longer.
Thank you for your patience. https://t.co/MSLfbWHGBw pic.twitter.com/GBt7ca4JKZ— Peggy Fox (@PeggyDomEnergy) May 23, 2022
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