Severe thunderstorms knocked out power for more than 3,379 Dominion Energy customers in Central Virginia by 11 p.m. Friday, after heavy rain and high-speed wind gusts swept through the region. The outage had already topped more than 8,400 customers earlier in the night, showing how quickly the storm disrupted homes and businesses.
The power loss came on Friday night, when the weather was still active and the scale of the outage was still shifting. More than 5,000 of the outages at the peak were in Albemarle, making that the hardest-hit area named in the outage report.
For people searching the Dominion Power Outage update, the number that mattered most was moving in the right direction but was still high. By 11 p.m., the total had dropped from its peak, yet more than 3,300 customers were still without service and no full restoration time was given.
Dominion Energy had an outage map listing estimated times of restoration, but the map was the only public guide mentioned for when service might return. That leaves a simple question for affected customers in Central Virginia: how much longer the lights stay out depends on the pace of repairs after a storm that hit hard and left a large footprint behind.
