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Thousands were without power in Virginia’s Northern Neck area

By Marysa Tuttle,

2024-05-01

UPDATE: Power has been restored.

WESTMORELAND, Va. (WRIC) — Thousands of customers in the Northern Neck area of Virginia are without power.

According to Dominion Energy’s outage map , more than 11,000 customers are without power in Virginia’s Northern Neck area on Wednesday, May 1.

The outage was caused by a car accident on a transmission pole owned by the Northern Neck Electric Cooperative’s transmission provider, according to a spokesperson for the Northern Neck Electric Cooperative.

Crews are actively working to restore power. According to Dominion Energy, power is expected to be restored between 5 and 8 p.m. Wednesday.

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Thomas Johnson

05-02

and musk says he can power a grid on battery power.but what caused this is a car accident

Puppeteer

05-02

All these comments are further from the Truth..The Northern Neck is definitely Trump Country and very few EV's..🤣😂🤣 Fields, sticks n water!!

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