UPDATE: McLean Neighbor With Serious Health Condition Struck in Hotel Room With No Power

UPDATE 3 pm. Judi's daughter just e-mailed to tell us that her mom and dad have power again in their Potomac Hills address so they are heading home.

UPDATE: 12:12 pm. Westin at National Harbor now has lost power. We're stuck right now in our room.  No way out. No a/c.

ORIGINAL STORY: I have a medical condition that requires me to stay out of the heat at all times. I have medicine worth thousands of dollars that need to be refrigerated at all times.

At 4 am Sat, we realized we could not stay in our home on Loch Raven Drive because of the blackout. We couldn't get through to any
hotels.

All the circuits were down so we woke up our son in Indiana and he got us a room at the Embassy Suites in Old Town.

The medicine is in an ice chest with all the ice we could salvage from the fridge.

We thought we were okay until Sunday afternoon when the hotel and all of Old Town was hit by a power outage. We made it down to the lobby before the last elevator was shut down.

Then we got in our a/c car, drove around while our kids in Indiana and North Carolina frantically searched for a hotel. Not easy since every hotel was booked with outage refugees.

They finally found us a room at the Westin at National Harbor where we now sit looking over the river and marina.

This outage is no joke for anyone with a serious medical condition!

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