Power Out In The Washington D.C. Area After Violent Storm

Posted By on July 26, 2010

WASHINGTON – It could take days to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people in the D.C. area after a violent storm downed power lines and trees and left three people dead.

Powerful, fast-moving storms swept through the region Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands of families without electricity.

Three people died as a result of the storm. In Beltsville, a tree crushed a minivan, killing the 44-year-old driver and injuring her passenger, a woman in her 60s. A man using a personal watercraft on the Chesapeake Bay and died after encountering severe winds and choppy seas while trying to get back to land. In Virginia, a 6-year-old boy died when a falling tree branch struck him outside a Sterling recreational center.

Officials said they hadn’t had a similar large outage since those in the wake of Hurricane Isabel in 2003, when flooding and fallen trees caused even more massive outages and some customers went a week or more without power.

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