A power outage caused by a fire at a substation outside Waynesboro put thousands of Dominion Virginia Power and Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative customers in the dark – and in the cold – on Saturday.
As of just before 3 p.m. Saturday, 9,440 Dominion customers and 2,100 SVEC in Waynesboro and Augusta County were still without electricity.
Dominion said in a message on its Facebook page that it was expecting service to be restored across the region by 4 p.m.
At the height of the outage, which began at 7 a.m., nearly 37,000 customers in Waynesboro, the eastern half of Augusta County and portions of Nelson County and Albemarle County were without power.
Once crews repaired the problem at the Dooms substation, the utility began restoring power in phases across the region beginning at around 2 p.m.
Share
Contributors
