Update at 7:50 p.m. — The number of outages in Arlington is down to 200, according to Dominion.
Earlier: More than 5,500 Dominion customers are without power in Arlington following this afternoon’s storms, mostly in and around the Clarendon area.
The Clarendon outage extends from Wilson Blvd down to N. Bedford Street in Lyon Park, near Route 50. Numerous businesses in the area are without power and the busy intersection of Washington Blvd and 10th Street N.
As of 4:50 p.m. Dominion was reporting 5,542 outages in Arlington, with some smaller outages scattered throughout the county. There have also been reports of trees and utility wires down in the roadway in various locations, and at least one tree that fell and damaged a house.
The Arlington County Police Department is reminding drivers to treat dark traffic signals as a four-way stop.
TRAFFIC ALERT ⚠️: Reports of traffic signal outages in County due to storm. Treat all uncontrolled intersections as 4 way stop @ArlingtonDES
— ArlingtonCountyPD (@ArlingtonVaPD) June 19, 2017
Power outage map (top) via Dominion. Weather radar via weather.com.
