Winds gusting as high as 80 mph toppled trees onto roads and houses Saturday evening and knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses.
website reported about 225,000 utility customers without electricity in Maryland and Virginia about 6 p.m. The outages were divided evenly by state. The number of outages in the District could not be immediately determined.
Trees toppled on roads both minor and major, including the Baltimore Washington Parkway in Prince George’s County and Interstate 66 in Arlington County.In Arlington, motorists left their cars on the rain-slicked roadway to try to move a huge tree trunk out of the way. The extent of the damage appeared to reflect the strength of the winds reported throughout the area as the storm swept southeastward in the hour after 4 p.m.
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