Power Outage Reported in Virginia Square Area
Parts of Arlington County have been experiencing power problems this morning.
Currently, more than 1,200 power customers are reported to be in the dark in the Virginia Square, Cherrydale and Ballston neighborhoods, according to an outage map from Dominion Energy.
Some complication have been reported from that outage, including tripped fire alarms, smoke from generators starting up, non-functioning traffic signals and a potential power surge in a building.
Several traffic light issues were reported earlier this morning, in Clarendon and Ballston. It’s unclear if those problems are related to the current power outage.
The traffic light being out at Washington and 10th street this am might be the worst place for a signal to fail @ARLnowDOTcom
— Clarendon Nights (@clarendonnights) March 23, 2021
Glebe Rd and N Quincy St/N Henderson Rd, flashing traffic lights, be sure to stop #Arlington #VaTraffic #DCTraffic
Traffic? https://t.co/nb3VFR1abs
Listen ? https://t.co/KpJlqpKxN7 pic.twitter.com/2gnH8TWJtQ— WTOP Traffic (@WTOPtraffic) March 23, 2021
Update at 11:05 a.m. — The outage is down to about 350 Dominion customers, per the power company’s website.