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Preparing For Snow

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Northern Virginia Preparing for Possible Snow

Dominion Power is urging their customers to be prepared with food and an emergency plan.

With a National Weather Service winter storm watch in place for Thursday morning for Northern Virginia, personnel at Dominion Power, Fairfax County Public Schools and the Virginia Department of Transportation have their eyes glued to the weather forecasts. Le-Ha Anderson, a spokeswoman with Dominion Power, said the company is making sure their trucks are gassed up and ready to respond if there are any power outages. She said the utility company has a team of meteorologists that are tracking the storm for them. Follow Fairfax Station Patch on Facebook and Twitter! “Wet snow with some wind could cause some power outages,” Anderson said. “We do urge our customers to be prepared with an emergency plan with phone numbers and nonperishable food …

Gerry

8:03 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013

New is now about maybe, if, what if! In the past the news was more REAL, now it is just a Fear factor. Very frustrating to see how they play us.   more ›

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