At a press conference moments ago, Governor Bob McDonnell announced that there is over 1 million power outages in the state of Virginia with 119,000 of those in Northern Virginia from high winds and water from Hurricane Irene.
Despite the high number of outages region-wide, Manassas seems to have gotten off easy.
Mike Moon, Public Works Utility Director commented on the storm and power outages Manassas residents experienced.
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"From about 2:15 to 6:15 a.m. late last night and early morning we had about 1,500 power outages in the Weems and Point of Woods areas due to down trees," Moon said. "As of right now, power has been restored and everything is back on."
"We had our public works crews out all night responding to routine service calls associated with a major storm. No significant flooding, just blocked up drains...from talking with everyone it seems we dodged the bullet on this one."
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NOVEC reported around 4,000 residents were without power in the Prince William County area intitially.
According to Vice President of Public Relations for the power company Mike Curtis most had been restored by mid-day Sunday. A press release sent out by NOVEC at 1:30 p.m. Sunday stated that there was less than 15 customers without power.
"As of right now, there are only 13 outages in our system, we are hoping that all of our customers will be restored by 10pm."
Driving through the neighborhoods the most visible damage is downed trees and branches. Some trees were resting on telephone lines and large amounts of green leaves covered the roads. Basketball hoops and trash cans were blown over, as well as a bent street sign in the Buckhall area of Manassas.
The banks of Broad Run along Piper Lane near the airport were swollen but the water did not crest over. Small amounts of debris were moving swiftly in the large stream with no major issues.
All traffic signals seemed to be operating fine and the sun broke through the clouds as Irene now downgraded to a tropical storm headed north.
Check out the photos from around town.
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