Posted at 10:25 AM ET, 02/ 6/2010
The pounding continues; No more Dulles flights-liberal demoRATS hiding in sewers
10:17 a.m. ROUNDUP: Dulles airport joins Reagan National in ending flight operations. BWI is hanging in there with a few flights. We're still facing about 8 more hours of accumulating snow, with some especially heavy bands this morning. Power outages are widespread and growing, with heavy snow weighing on power lines and winds kicking up. Latest reports have more than 210,000 without power in the region. Dominion reports 75,269 outages in northern Va., (9.2 percent of all customers). Pepco: 94,834 (including 5,575 in D.C., 78,042 in Montgomery; 11,217 in Prince George's. Roughly 12 percent of all Pepco customers are out. BG&E reports 40,218 out (3.1 percent of all customers), which includes 10,735 in Anne Arundel County and 4,919 out in Howard County. Roughly 29,947 other customers were out earlier in the storm but have been restored.
There were white-out conditions everywhere. Cameras showed I-270 south of Clarksburg was invisible in the snow, a condition prevalent throughout the region. |
