Dominion Virginia Power spokesman Dan Genest said that as of 6:30 p.m. today, just 19 customers who lost power during Hurricane Irene remain without electricity.
The outage number on the Dominion website may not reflect the actual number of customers without power.
“As we get to this point, sometimes to get more people back on, we have to disconnect people temporarily to make it safe for us to do it,” Genest said. “It could be new outages.”
He's said it has been a long, hard haul on customers and electrical crews to restore power to the 1.2 million Dominion customers that lost power due to Irene.
About 408,000 Dominion customers in the Richmond region lost power when Hurricane Irene blew pastVirginia nine days ago.
Crews from as far away as Ohio and Florida travelled the Richmond region repairing downed lines or blown transformers.
“We are very close to being able to say Irene is behind us,” Genest said. “I think overall, it went well. There are always bumps in the road when you have 1.2 million customers out. There are certainly going to be some lessons we can learn when we sit down to critique this.”
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