Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Anderson was one of three Dominion Virginia Power employees recently recognized for their volunteer service this year.
Clifton's Le-Ha Anderson, a media relations manager for Dominion Virginia Power, was honored recently for her work in raising the profile of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce. “Le-Ha has gone above and beyond the call of duty, with a willingness to lend a helping hand whenever asked,” said Cindy Shao, president and founder of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce. “Her charm and demeanor have earned her the gratitude and respect of our members. Her volunteer nature is contagious and inspirational to many.” Anderson was honored on April 5. Anderson is credited with with making successes of the chamber's annual Awards Gala and Taste of Asia event. Work Worthy of Recognition Annandale's Phillip Sandino, a Dominion customer solutions…
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Communications company blamed loss of service, particularly to the 911 network, on “multiple failures cascading from the generator problems."
Generator problems are to blame for Verizon's response to the June 29 derecho storm, according to a presentation from a company representative during a town hall meeting hosted by Del. Kaye Kory’s (D-38th) in Falls Church. Doug Sullivan of Verizon said the derecho storm “downed more poles and generated more commercial trouble tickets for Verizon than Hurricane Irene” and blamed the loss of service, particularly to the 911 network, on “multiple failures cascading from the generator problems”. [Dominion Virginia Power also gave a presentation at the Town Hall. Read about its presentation here.] Due to the power outage, Verizon did not have enough information to create a plan to fix the damage and restore power to its customers. “It is very …
A power company representative said problems stemmed largely from the storm's sudden arrival.
Dominion Virginia Power blamed a lack of advance preparation time for their week-long power restoration following the June 29 derecho storm, the company said in a presentation during a Town Hall meeting hosted by Del. Kaye Kory’s (D-38th) in Falls Church. [Verizon also gave a presentation at the Town Hall. Read about its presentation here.] “It is very scary to be without any kind of communication or air conditioning when we experience a million-year storm,” said Kory, who called the meeting so residents had a chance to communicate directly with the service providers. Dominion's problems stemmed largely from the storm’s sudden arrival, the company said. “This was the equivalent of a hurricane moving across the nation with little time for …
Monday, July 2, 2012
More than 150,000 remained without power early Monday morning, according to Dominion Virginia Power.
Update - 10:45 a.m.: Dominion Virginia Power has posted today's work crews location list. As of 10:42 a.m., the company reported 170,183 were still without power across the Northern Virginia power region. ------------ Dominion Virginia Power crews continue to make steady progress toward restoring power to those who lost it late Friday night in the derecho. As of 5 a.m. Monday, 185,496 customers remained without power across Dominion’s Northern Virginia service area. More than 320,000 across the state had no service. Among those without power at 5 a.m. according to Dominion’s Interactive Outage Viewer were more than: As a measure of overnight progress, more than 228,600 in Northern Virginia— more than a quarter of Dominion’s 831,000 …
Sunday, July 1, 2012
More than 250,000 customers in Northern Virginia are still without power — and officials estimate next weekend for 100-percent return to service in the third-worst outage in Virginia history.
Update - 5:17 p.m. - Dominion Virginia Power released the following statement late this afternoon: "Dominion Virginia Power expects to restore service by Tuesday night for 80-85 percent of customers whose power was disrupted by two days of severe storms at the end of last week. The company expects to restore service to 90-95 percent of affected customers by Thursday night, and virtually all remaining customers by Saturday night. However, it is expected that in areas of the most-severe damage, service may not be restored fully until next Sunday." Dominion has brought in line crews and other assistance from Texas, Florida, Kansas and 10 other states plus Canada, officials reported in a press release. Updated storm restoration information is …
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Governor says citizens should prepare for a multi-day power restoration and recovery effort.
UPDATE - Sunday, 7 a.m.: For a full update of conditions, outages, water restrictions and more across Nothern Virginia on Sunday, see this story: 290,000 Still Without Power in Northern Virginia Sunday Morning. --------- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) declared a state of emergency Saturday morning as Virginia prepares for what he says will be a "multi-day event with the potential for further problems." At least 2.5 million people in the state lost power in the rare derecho storm, which ripped through the area with winds from 60 to 80 miles per hour around 10:30 p.m. last night. There were six fatalities - two in Fairfax County, the governor said. All were killed when trees fell on homes or cars. "This is the largest non-hurricane power …
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