âIâm super excited and so gratefulâ: Power crews work nonstop to turn the lights back on
âIâm super excited and so gratefulâ: Power crews work nonstop to turn the lights back on By Karina Bolster | February 15, 2021 at 6:40 PM EST - Updated February 15 at 7:02 PM
CHESTERFIELD Co., Va. (WWBT) - Electric crews are finding success with restoring power to tens of thousands of people as the weather âwarmsâ up across Central Virginia.
As of 5 p.m. Monday, nearly 19,000 Dominion Energy customers in the metro-Richmond/Tri-Cities area were still without power.
However, for one North Chesterfield neighborhood, power was restored around noon Monday â nearly 50 hours after it first went out.
pressure held steady. it had probable hurricane maintain 80, 85-mile-per-hour wind speeds until it makes life fall up in long island. it is going to hug the coast. showed down a little bit. this is midnight till south of ocean city. still looking at winds 70, perhaps 80 miles per hour. probable probably nothing more than that. by 5 p.m. then the storm starts to lash the new jersey coach. we talked about this yesterday as well. the amount of people in terms of population this storm is affected is unbelievable. somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 million. about 30 million were under a hurricane warning. i can t remember the last time that has happened. all right, irene s wind field. here is the deal. yellow is essentially 40-mile- per-hour wind field. we will put this into motion. notice by 10 p.m. tonight we see the hurricane force winds right on the de lmarva. will be short-lived. tonight, the storms will move to the east as a storm pulls out to the northeast. then by 6 p.m