Northern Viriginia Power

Fri Apr 6 11:08:30 UTC 2001

On 5 Apr 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:

> Was anyone else effected in Northern Virginia?  Other than a couple of
> stories about AOL IM being down, I couldn't find any news coverage of
> a major regional power outage in Northern Viriginia.  The only story I
> found was an electrical fire at Dullas Town Center near the Gap store.
> 
> VEPCO customer service didn't know of any power outages.

>From what I've heard it was a crane striking a major power line 
at around 2pm EST.

-Ronan