Gate where customers are without power. Kimberly, here in iron gate you can tell the power outage is causing some confusion. Were at a gas station where weve seen a number of people drive in, look around, and leave. Thats because were told this sign up here is lit 24 7, but right now, because of the power, its off. There are more than 11,000 dominion virginia customers without power statewide. 419 of them here in alleghany county. And 383 in botetourt county. Crews are working on 16 projects between the two counties. Folks we talked to gate went out around 7am this morning. David well i sleep by the radio and when the radio when off i woke up when the house went silent, i woke up. I still got heat in the house, i got gas logs in the living room so heat for Dominion Virginia Power customers, power should be restored by midnight. For bath alleghany customers were and 143 in bath live in iron gate, amanda kenney, wdbj7. Thousand people are without power in henry county. Heavy winds knocke
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Freezing rain continues for some. Watch for heavy rain and ice this morning. This winter storm continues to wreak havoc on our area and is making things tricky for commuters and people just even trying to walk their dog this morning. Wdbj7s shayne dwyer is live in Downtown Roanoke for us this morning. Shayne how are the roads looking right now . Good morning garrett. Roanoke, the roads primaries are in decent shape too but the Virginia Department of transportation is reporting slick spots pretty much all across our region. There is some snow and ice on primary routes in bedford, floyd, Henry Patrick and pulaski counties. Garrett ice continues to be the problem causer here this morning and may even be worse than the snow. Shayne Power Outages now topping more than 20 thousand. Where are the hardest hit areas . Garrett that number were no more than 21thousand three hundred right now. Right now some of the hardest hit areas are right in the Roanoke Valley where you see all that red. Roano
Roanoke, as about 45hundred are in the dark across the city. It could be until friday before the lights come back on for some. Dominion virginia power says hundreds of people in the alleghany highlands are expected to get power back by midnight. At last check in danville, 150 customers in the piney forest road area still did not have power. Crews hope to have it restored by midnight. Many people are wondering how to stay warm in the wake of all of these outages. Wdbj7s Khiree Stewart is live on the wdbj7 weather deck with the dos and donts of heat melissa, roanoke is on the outage map, so officials want to safe and comfortable until those power comes back on. The tv was on, and all of a sudden at 6 49, no more cable, no more tv, no more internet. Just came over here opened the shop and there was no power over here either. With cold tonight, it has many people thinking about how theyre going to stay warm. At least we have the flashlight and the candles. Tiffany bradbury is roanoke citys
County. 45hundred people are still in the dark in Roanoke County. 37hundred also in franklin county. So what exactly does it take get your power back up and running . Wfxrs Sophia Borrelli tagged along with appalachian power crews to find out 0 08 0 130 14 0 24five stops in five hours. But the list keeps growing for this line crew. Kenney boone line Crew Supervisor if we can fix it with just the three of us real quick, we can, but if it would be something that would tie us up a long time, we will just assessing it. Standup power crews say problems like this one arent a quick fix but they are working 15 to 16 hours a day just to get your power back on as soon as possible. Kenney dread the long hours, but you know, its just part of the job been doing it for 36 years. Crews say the ice storm after the snow was the cause for a lot of the problems. Kenney snow would have been better than the ice, the ice is what caused it. With no end in sight as to how long some will be without power, crew