UPDATE: All Electrical Power Restored to McLean Customers

TUESDAY EVENING: Dominion Power restored power to the remaining 50 McLean customers who had been without power since Saturday evening when brief but fierce storms walloped neighborhoods in south McLean and North Arlington.

As of Tuesday night, all Fairfax customers had their power restored, according to the Dominion power website.

Meanwhile in neighboring North Arlington, nearly 500 customers were still without power, nearly all of them concentrated in the neighborhoods around Williamsburg Boulevard, George Mason Drive and Harrison Street in North Arlington.

TUESDAY UPDATE: More than 100 McLean neighbors all generally located south of Kirby Road between Old Dominion Drive and Westmoreland Street faced their second night without power.

More than half of the 240 Fairfax County residents still without power live in McLean.

A brief but virulent line of thunderstorms moved through the area Sunday evening downing poles and power lines. One of the hardest hit areas were communities located near by McLean-Arlington County border.

Dominion Power estimated restoration times from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday.

"My power is still out on Chesterbrook Road," a McLean neighbor wrote McLean Patch early Monday afternoon. "I had to bring my refrigerated and frozen foods to my mom's apartment at The Ashby in McLean that has power. However, I drove up North Albemarle and up Williamsburg (in Arlington) and it looks like tornado alley. I saw at least 20 trees broken with many limbs on the power lines."

At 8:30 p.m. she reported: "Just got power at 8 o'clock tonight (on the Fourth of July). Our next purchase is going to be a generator. I'm plenty tired of having to worry about spoiled food every month or so when the wind blows and the above-ground power lines are too wimpy to handle it. Dominion needs to bury the power lines. We've suffered 18 years of power outages since moving into our house in Chesterbrook Woods area. Happy Fourth!"

Dominion Power was reporting about 50 McLean homes still without power at about 6:30pm Monday but that number has now nearly doubled.

WRC-TV reported Monday night that parts of Old Dominion Drive in Arlington are closed because of storm damage.

Please call 1-866-366-4357 to report outages.

Please let us know if you are without power. We'll keep writing about this until all the neighbors have their power restored.

UPDATE 8 a.m. Monday: Nearly 200 McLean neighbors who live in neighborhoods generally south of Kirby Road between Old Dominion Drive and Westmoreland Street.

The Dominion Power website showing the outages caused by last night's thunderstorm stated that some neighbors would be restored by 1 p.m.

But there was no estimated time of restoration of power for other neighborhoods.

Please report downed lines or outages to 1-866-366-4357.

Nearly 500 Fairfax County residents remain without power according to Dominion Power.

Dominion Power reported earlier today that their line had suffered severe damage; that they were working on 220 project including many with downed poles.

Please let us know if you are without power. We want to keep reporting this story until all the neighbors are back to normal.

ORIGINAL STORY SUNDAY July 3. Nearly 400 McLean homes generally located south of Kirby Road are without power following the powerful but brief thunderstorms that swept through the community shortly before 6:30p.m.

According to the Dominion Power website nearly 300 homes near Kirby Road just east of Old Dominion homes have lost power. Dominion Power estimated they will be restored between 9 and 11 p.m.

Another nearly 100 neighbors are without power between Kirby Road and Williamsburg Boulevard. The estimated time for restoration there is 10 p.m. and midnight, according to Dominion Power.

These neighbors are among an estimated 3,600 folks in Fairfax who have lost power.

Please let us know if you are without power. We'll keep writing about this until all the neighbors have their power back.