While the eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia continued to feel the effects of Tropical Depression Ernesto on Sunday, the Washington region had almost returned to normal.
As of early Sunday afternoon, Pepco reported just more than 1,000 customers without power in the District and Prince George’s and Montgomery counties in Maryland. The Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative had restored power to most of its customers in Charles County, though more than 3,000 homes in St. Mary’s were still without electricity.
Meanwhile, Dominion had fewer than 1,600 customers in the dark in Northern Virginia — but reported roughly 50,000 without power on the Northern Neck, in Southeast Virginia and near Richmond.
In the District, the Department of Transportation was still dealing with a handful of downed trees and limbs, in addition to signal outages.
“All in all, it was less than we expected, less than what was forecast, but it was good practice for fall storms,” DDOT spokesman Erik Linden said.
The immediate metro area generally received less than 3 inches of rain from the storm, as Ernesto tracked farther to the east than expected. A period of 30- to 40-mph winds whipped the region but left most communities generally no worse for wear.
