Checking in from the DC area. What a wild weekend. We had 70+mph winds for a brief moment Friday night that knocked out our power for 24 hours. Many friends are still without power. At one point 75% of all households were without power in our county. Some parts of Virginia had it even worse. It was the worst non hurricane weather event in Virginia history (as far as power outages go); probably the same can be said for Maryland. The electric company here says it could be until this Friday before 90% of households will be back online. Of course the 100 degree weather did not help things at all. As of 6pm Sunday there are still over 400 traffic lights still dark in our county. The federal government will have a liberal leave policy tomorrow and are encouraging everyone to work from home to keep the stress off the commuter routes so that crews can finish repairs. Now they say another comples of storms are heading this way that could arrive overnight.
The best news is that we were able to save all the contents of our wine refrigerator!!