Power mostly restored in Alexandria with under 200 still affected

While Dominion Energy warned earlier that repairs for large swaths of Alexandria could be delayed until Tuesday morning, most of those outages have been cleared up as of 3:30 p.m.

Around 176 Alexandrians remain without power, according to the Dominion website. Those outages are scattered around the city, though 144 of them are in Arlandria — which was hit with widespread outages last night.

The Dominion website said the Arlandria restoration is likely to be resolved between 6-11 p.m., but Dominion spokesperson Peggy Fox told ALXnow those estimates generally reflected the latest possible times those could be delayed.

The outage caused frustrations among Alexandrians, who said the post-storm power outage was a reflection of the poor state of utilities in Northern Virginia.

WHAT DO WE WANT?

ANY FUNCTIONING UTILITIES!

WHEN DO WE WANT IT?

LIKE, TEN YEARS AGO? I MEAN WHAT THE ACTUAL…? I mean, constant, breakneck growth without maintaining, renewing, repairing, and replacing existing infrastructure just seems foolish and maybe we should really think

— Let’s Meat on the Avenue (@LetsmeatDelRay) May 23, 2022

City Council member John Chapman said the outages emphasized the need to take another look at undergrounding more utilities in Alexandria.

I wonder how much undergrounded power lines would have helped keep power on last night @DominionEnergy ?? We need to talk more openly about this, because storms are going to get worse, due in part to climate change.

— John Taylor Chapman (@j_chapman99) May 23, 2022

Image via Dominion Energy