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If you have power Friday night, consider yourself lucky.
Shortly before midnight, Dominion Power was reporting 534,000 customers without power in Northern Virginia.
In Prince William County, 2,982 Dominion customers were without power Friday night. The outages were in smaller clusters near Davis Ford Road, parts of Route 1 and the mid-county area.
In Manassas City, 20 Dominion customers are without power. In Manassas Park, 1,668 customers are without power.
Readers reported being without power in the Blackburn Road and Summerland Heights neighborhoods in Woodbridge.
NOVEC reported 14,070 Prince William Customers were without power Friday night.
To notify NOVEC of outages via telephone at 1-888-335-0500 or 703-335-0500.
If you are a Dominion customer, call to report an outage at 1-866-DOM-HELP (1-866-366-4357). Both power companies may not know of your outage unless you report it.
The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch until 1 a.m. Friday for the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia. NWS' forecast for Saturday calls for a chance of thunderstorms after 2 p.m.
Do you have Verizon? We just got some updated information from them but no estimate for service restoration.
Due to the recent storms the Manassas City Police Department 911 system is working intermittently. For Manassas City Police Assistance (emergency or non-emergency) please call 703.257.8000. If you are calling to report a power outage or trees in the roadway call Utilities at 703.257.8353.
Del. Rich Anderson
My family lives in that area as well. They are still without power, be sure to report the outage!
With cell phone service coming back up Dominion is expecting some more reports to come in. Be sure to report your outage!