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Thousands Without Power In Alexandria, GW Parkway Floods
BREAKING: Outages have been reported around Alexandria, and Arlington Fire warns about flooding on the GW Parkway.
ALEXANDRIA, VAāThousands of Alexandria residents are without power after Tuesday's thunderstorm.
The outages are intermittent throughout the city, but the most severe outages happened in the Taylor Run area (1,579), Old Town (1,917) and Arlandria (885) according to Dominion Energy's outage map.
Report outages to 1-866-DOM-HELP (1-866-366-4357).
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Meanwhile, commuters heading south into Alexandria via the GW Parkway should seek other routes. The Arlington Fire Department reported 25 were caught in flooding near Reagan National Airport. First responders have rescued 40 occupants from their cars, and no one was injured.
#Breaking: 20 plus vehicles with water up to their doors on GW Pkwy at Reagan Airport. Avoid GW PKWY!!! pic.twitter.com/61BaHuyroQ
ā Arlington Fire (@ArlingtonVaFD) July 17, 2018
Video of stranded motorists being brought to safety by the Water Rescue Team during todayās incident at GW Pkwy. pic.twitter.com/udHb4jktY7
ā Arlington Fire (@ArlingtonVaFD) July 17, 2018
Flooding on the street outside of my office in Old Town, Alexandria. Thatās the street I drive down to go home! pic.twitter.com/41OhBoLQD1
ā Lateefah Williams (@Lateefah4DC) July 17, 2018
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