Dominion Electric – Virginia
Dominion Electric Power Outage Map – Virginia
At 2 PM on Monday August 29th 2011 Dominion Electric released this 2 minute video:
They said that Hurricane Isabel had resulted in 1.8 million outages, which took 14 days to repair fully. Irene had resulted in a total of 1.2 million outages, which was the second worst in their history. They expected repairs to be completed much more quickly this time around.
Earlier on Monday Dominion had reported at 12:20 PM that:
Dominion will restore power to 90-95 percent of the customers affected by Irene-related outages by the end of the day Friday. Seventy-five percent will be restored by the end of the workday on Wednesday. In Northern Virginia, where Irene had lesser impact, restoration will be completed tomorrow.
Nearly all customers in the remaining areas, which suffered the most extreme damage, will have their electric service restored by the end of the day Saturday. As of noon today, we have restored power to about 600,000 of the 1.2 million customers affected by Irene-related power outages. We are working to help ensure that our customers have power for the Labor Day weekend.
At 10:30 AM on Sunday August 28th 2011 Dominion Electric released this video:
In addition Dominion reported that in Virginia and North Carolina:
Dominion crews in Virginia and North Carolina are assessing damage and working with local emergency personnel today to return electrical service to 1.2 million customers, focusing first on public health and safety facilities. The Hurricane Irene restoration effort is the company's second largest behind only Hurricane Isabel.
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