Nearly 15,000 customers in Maryland, Virginia and the District were dealing with outages after Sunday night’s storm — and power companies were preparing for another all-nighter.
More than 3,100 Montgomery County and some 1,500 Prince George’s County customers had no power Monday morning.
Pepco construction crews switched to restoration work and additional shift workers were hurrying to get work done during the day, Dobkin said.
Regular company and contract crews were handling the work in Maryland, said Linda Foy, a Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. spokeswoman.
Another 5,000 businesses and residents had no power Monday morning in the District, according to Pepco.
Several federal buildings, such as the IRS headquarters and old Post Office building, were closed due to lack of power and air conditioning due to flooding, said Michael McGill, a General Services Administration spokesman.
“It has just been around the clock. You restore customers and there are new outages as you go. That kept us busy this weekend and we are far from done when you look at the forecast for tonight,” said Bob Dobkin, a Pepco spokesman.
More than 5,000 Dominion customers in Northern Virginia were without power Monday morning, the majority of whom were in Alexandria and Arlington, according to Dan Genest, a Dominion spokesman.
“If the rains do not hammer us too hard, we’re hoping to have everyone up by the evening,” said Genest, who said the flooding made repair work problematic.
Staff writer David Francis contributed to this report.
Regional power customers:
» Pepco – 750,000 customers in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and the District
» BGE – 91,307 in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties
» Dominion – 770,217 in Northern Virginia
