customers are still in the dark, most of them here in montgomery county. brian coakley of the manor club neighborhood has lost power so many times over the years that he now keeps miners lights scattered throughout his house for times just like this. a powerful stormed move through downing trees, knocking out five or six pepco feeder lines. unfortunately, we re getting used to this, and i am going to finally break down and bye a generator capable of running more things, you know. hope springs eternal. we think that we can live like the rest of the first world, but not so in this neighborhood. reporter: a very unhappy pepco customer, one of thousands throughout the area tonight. some good news for people like brian coakley is that the storm that moved through this area earlier tonight cooled things down significantly. so being without power and therefore air conditioning won t be nearly as bad for the next few hours as it would have been just a few hours ago. derek. tha