It got very windy earlier today and I didn’t really think anything of it - just got a call from my brother who is running errands and apparently pretty much all of Burke is without power. Which isn’t the end of the world in and of itself, but seems that the police aren’t bothering to work the major intersections.
Let’s face it - folks around here can barely handle a regular 4 way stop - expecting them to have the good sense that a dark intersection automatically becomes a 4 way stop is pushing it. Fairfax County PD - please get out there before some moron crashes into my brother’s car.
I did find a nifty little outage map courtesy of Virginia Power:
http://www.dom.com/news/northva.jsp
We seem to be lucky to still have power.
ETA: Brother is home in one piece and not exactly pleased with the utilization of resources by the local police. He saw 4 cruisers wandering about - 2 on our street. Our neighborhood street, which is still fully powered and in no need of traffic assistance.
March 8th, 2008 - 11:12 pm
At least they’ve repaired the worst bits–no red dots and few orange on that map. (We were at Riss’s parents’ house near Hoadly/Spriggs in PWC, and the power was out for a few hours. We also heard that one traffic light on Hoadly was actually blown off the support wire, and another twisted up to the support wire.)
March 8th, 2008 - 11:19 pm
Yeah, this afternoon at the worst, there were 50K houses w/out power in NoVa - now it’s down to just 7K.
Had my brother not called or I missed the evening news, I never would have suspected that kind of damage - it just got windy around here, but it didn’t seem to be that bad.