Utilities making progress in restoring power

There is some good news on the power outage front.

At this time Saturday morning, more than 100,000 Fredericksburg-area homes and businesses were without power after violent thunderstorms swept through the region Friday night.

This morning, the number has dropped to a little over 48,000.

That will not provide comfort to the people still roasting in homes without air conditioning, but utilities crews are making progress. (Good news: The Massad YMCA’s water park on Butler Road in Stafford will reopen at noon Sunday. Curtis Park and Woodlands pools also will reopen Sunday. All three pools will be open until 6 p.m.)

In Stafford County, more than 60,000 homes and businesses had no power Saturday morning. That number is a little over 19,000 Sunday morning for customers of Dominion Virginia Power and the Rappahannock, Northern Virginia and Northern Neck electric cooperatives.

After Stafford, Fauquier, Orange and Culpeper have the most homes and businesses without power.

Dominion has released a list of where its crews in the Fredericksburg area will be concentrating today:

Fredericksburg/Stafford

Aquia Drive & Schooner Drive

Belle Plains Road & Newton Road

Bells Hill Road @ Oak Drive

Courthouse Road east, front of elementary school

Cranes Corner off of Diechman Lane

Delaware Drive at Trans line

Harpoon Drive at Trans line

Jeff Davis Highway & Eskimo Hill Road

Jefferson Davis @ Acadia Street

Longstreet Avenue

Riverview Drive @ Marin King George

Rt. 696, intersection w/ Rt 218

Toluca Road off Garrisonville Road

Aquia Drive & Potomac Drive

Brafferton Blvd.

Courthouse Rd east of Winding Crk Elem

Garrisonville Rd @ Joshua Rd

Pewter Ln off Brafferton Blvd

King George:

Lambs Creek Road south of Turkey Acres

Rt 650 @ Pomeray Drive

Triangle:

Graham Park Road @ Wayside Drive

Purvis Drive

Warrenton:

Beach Rd

Culpeper St @ Brookshire Dr

Culpeper Rd north of Oak Shade Rd

–Betty Hayden Snider

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