Thousands of Alexandria residents are in darkness on Friday night due to a power outage.
At 8 p.m., the utility company is reporting 12,750 customers without electricity. By 8:20 p.m., that number had dropped to 6,846.
More than 3,000 customers are without electricity in parts of Arlington around the Alexandria border.
Affected neighborhoods include Dale Ray, Potomac Yard and Fairlington. Some have reported power flirting.
According to Dominion’s website, power restoration estimates are currently between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. The cause of the outage was a faulty circuit in the substation, a company spokesperson said.
Updated at 9:30 p.m. – Alexandria police are reminding residents to treat dark traffic signals like four-way stops.
“Dominion Power has recorded a major impact of electricity in the city of Alexandria.” APDA said. “This outage has caused many intersections without electricity. Treat all powerless intersections as a four-way stop. Please be careful and drive safely. ”
Updated at 9:15 p.m. – Power was soon restored and installed, but according to a Dominion spokesman, it is back off. A number of residents around the city said on Twitter that they are still without power.
Our system showed that after a while everyone is back, we have more outages. We are working on it. https://t.co/AVIm1tmvPj
– Peggy Fox (@ Peggy Dome Ergi) October 24, 2020
I’m sitting in the dark, so… no https://t.co/A3dVYLScMv
– Oriana Pavalk (@ Oriana 0214) October 24, 2020
I have waited 10 months for the Wisconsin football game. Of course this is when there is a temporary power outage for three-plus hours.
– Drew Hansen (Drubaru) October 24, 2020
Not really- it still keeps going in and out of Del Rey.
– Richard England (@RenglandDC) October 24, 2020
No – just went out for the 11th time https://t.co/YgiSTAuTxU
– Dianiitm (Dianietm) October 24, 2020
More via social media:
We found the Alexandria / Arlington outage in the substation circuit. It causes the same tremors. Our crew is on it and trying to regain your strength ASAP! justindotnet @AlexandriaVAGov Liked
– Peggy Fox (@ Peggy Dome Ergi) October 24, 2020
There are widespread power outages in Alexandria and Arlington from tonight. Dominion Energy is investigating the cause, and has provided an estimated 1am restoration installation time. If you have run out of power, please report it to https://t.co/rjdvsX47E1
– Alexandria Police (AlexandriaVAPD) October 23, 2020
We have K 13K Liked Customers around the city experience intermittent disasters due to circuit failure at the substation.
Please report the outage online or by phone at 866-366-4357. Http://t.co/P7thQdZmld
– Justin Wilson (adjointnet) October 23, 2020
Power is running out in Dale Ray
– Andrew Bouj on no (@ abeaj on no) October 23, 2020
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