Be restored here, because its not just a one transformer job here. And as crews take care of the larger outages, a repair might restore 12 customers instead of 12hundred. So theres plenty of work ahead before everyone has power again. Live in roanoke joe dashiell wdbj7 thousands of people in our area are on day two of no power, and they want to know when its coming back. Appalachian powers teresa hall joins us now by phone, with some answers. Good afternoon, teresa. Kimberly mcbroom wdbj7 first, lets get the updated number of power outages, and which areas are still the most affected Kimberly Mcbroom wdbj7 it seems that the Roanoke Valley metro area has had the biggest chunk of outages since the beginning. Why do you think that is . Kimberly mcbroom wdbj7 as people are waiting for their power to come back on, are there any things that Kimberly Mcbroom wdbj7 if you do have an outage, do you just need to notify apco once, or checking in with the company . Its now been nearly 24 hours sin
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
And ice this morning. Yesterday many people got lucky with yesterday many people got lucky with yesterday many people got lucky with the timing of the storm and that it fell on a holiday when many people were already off work and out of school. But thats not the case today, and this latest round of winter storm may cause many headaches for people today. Wdbj7s shayne dwyer is live in Downtown Roanoke for us this morning. Morning, and most importantly how are the roads . Kimberly its downright dangerous out here. The primary roads are in as good as shape as they can be, the plow crews have been working all through the night to get those clear. But there is a lot of standing water and slush on the roads. My 15 minute commute into work this morning took me over 30 minutes. If you went slow yesterday, try to go about half that speed today. Kimberly ice can come out of no where and turn a normal day into a power crews are very on power lines and trees. More than 14 thousand outages reported
Colder spots, merrimac value, southern New Hampshire. Even there, you shoot up to 50. Winds gusting 20, 35 Miles Per Hour out of the south. That will continue to increase, a couple of showers in here across Worcester County as well as south and west out toward bon of. Back into hopkinton, these north. Expect scattered showers over the next few hours. Later this afternoon, this line of rain yesterdayed down pours and strong wind gusts has to work on through. It looks like the timing of that between about 4 and 8 p. M. Temperatures even this evening are running into the 50s. So contend with that strong wind at times, gusting over 50 Miles Per Hour over eastern mass. In between 4 and 8 p. M. Quick, half an inch, to an inch of rain. Do expect standing water on the roadways. Reduced visibility. So a slow go for the rain and evening commute. Isolated wind damage too. Tree branches falling down when the winds start gusting. This all wraps up by midnight tonight. More on that sevenday forecast
Parents were left to wonder where is my child. Well, our grace joyal tracked down one of the parents. I understand this mom had to call police to find her son. Thats right. 4yearold nathons mother said shes devastated by the lack of communication here. Her son is autistic and does not speak. So he cannot express to her what he was feeling last night. Nathons ride home usually takeses an hour and a half. I was very worried. I was i cant really describe it. Reporter the 4yearold is autistic and does not speak. He was one of 17 children with special needs who got stuck on a broken bus monday night. He was soaking wet. He was tired, hungry. Didnt get home untnt 7 13. Five hours on the bus. Reporter his mother, shakerra wiley, called the school and the transportation department. No one answer. Ner virus and nervous and i called the police. And they had to find the bus. Reporter they said the Transportation Office could not let the parents know because the substitute driver didnt have a rost