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was pretty widespread..., that the wind was knocking the tree branches on the lines., and knocking out the power,” she said.
Toscano said that power was .restored to all of the customers the same day, with most people getting back up by 6 p.m. Though a few customers did not have power until late in the evening, she said.
About 2,200 customers with Allegheny Power lost electricity in a service area covering Rappahannock and four other counties, said company spokesman David Neurohr.
“It was multiple small events that caused clusters of a dozen or two customers to go out in very different areas,” he said.
Most of the outages were caused by downed branches, Neurohr said, which are more likely to snap in cold, dry winter weather.
“They’re a little less supple, a little more brittle,” he said.
More than 215,000 customers with Dominion lost electricity because of the winds, according to a company press release. Dominion reported gusts of over 70 mph. Over 7,000 of the company’s customers in Virginia were still without power Monday afternoon.
Sperryville resident Sandra Cartwright-Brown said she returned to her home Sunday afternoon to discover the power was out. She and her husband made do with a back-up generator until it was back on the next morning, she said.
Cartwright, who gets her power from Allegheny, said there was no sign of what had caused the outage.
In Washington, a windblown tree nearly crushed the county administrator’s office.
Candy Wroth, an assistant to the administrator, discovered Monday morning when she showed up for work that the big tree next to the office had taken a tumble.
“Missed our office, thank goodness,” she said.
E-mail the reporter at mpelkey@timespapers.com.
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