Arlandria and Rosemont hit by power outages after severe thunderstorm

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