On Wednesday there were more than 180,000 customers in about 30 districts throughout Virginia and the authorities said they were investigating more than 900 traffic accidents after the storm was interpreted In some areas the foot of the snow the state.
The storm was part of the winter weather model, which also lost Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Southern Pennsylvania and New Jersey from Tuesday to Wednesday, closed schools and triggered accidents that blocked roads.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia declared an emergency status of the storm, and the state Ministry of Transport warned residents to stay off the roads on Wednesday.
According to more than 180,000 customers were without energy early Wednesday afternoon Poweroutage.us, that monitors data from the company company. Some of the most difficult snowfall in the Central Atlantic region fell in Virginia and West Virginia and measured more than a leg in some places, measured more than a leg, The National Meteorological Service said.
Robin Lawson, a spokesman for the State Police in Virginia, said on Wednesday that the whole community occurred on Tuesday until noon on Wednesday 928 accidents, of which injuries were involved.
The state police were still working on confirmation whether all these accidents were related to the storm, she said in an interview.
“It is a storm that touched the western part of the community to the east side with freezing rain and snow,” she said.
The fucking rain was forecast until Thursday in the western region of the state, but the winter weather warning was canceled when temperatures were promoted by 32 degrees, the meteorological service said on Wednesday.
Power outages, shot down trees and dangerous road conditions were probably at the beginning of Thursday to accumulate ice across southern and central regions, she said.
Craig Carper, spokesman for Dominion Energy, providing services more than 2.7 million customers in the most inhabited parts of Virginia, said about 110,000 company customers were without energy early on Wednesday afternoon, mainly because of ice storage on tree branches and power lines.
The company was reinforced for further outages when the freezing rain moved to the western part of the state, Mr. Carper said in an interview.
