Politics & Government

UPDATE: No Snow for Fairfax

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

UPDATE (2:30 p.m.): The Winter Weather Advisory for the Washington area has been canceled.

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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.

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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.

“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 just in case there are some outages.”

Find out what's happening in Fairfax Citywith free, real-time updates from Patch.

As the forecast changes, VDOT will have 650 trucks ready to roll out Thursday morning to pre-treat interstates in Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William counties, agency spokeswoman Jenny McCord said. If the forecast changes and more snow hits the region, McCord said VDOT is prepared to bring in extra manpower.

Fairfax City tested its snow treatment equipment Tuesday.

As of 5 a.m. Thursday, there are no FCPS closures or delayed openings.

If the snow causes power outages, you can click here to view the outage map on Dominion Power’s website or you can go to Dom.com on your cell phones and tablets.

For road updates from VDOT Thursday, you can click here.

For updates for school information from Fairfax County Public Schools, you can click here.


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