Delmarva Power is estimating that all power should be restored on Friday after violent storms ripped through the area late Tuesday afternoon and into the evening.
As of 3:30 p.m. Wednesday power had been restored to nearly 51,700 customers who lost service during Tuesday’s storm. Delmarva Power crews and contractors will continue working around the clock until service is restored, a company press release stated.
The utility reported wind, rain and lightning brought down trees, limbs onto power lines, causing considerable damage to Delmarva’s electric system.
“We have deployed crews in communities throughout Delaware and Maryland,” said Delmarva Power Region President Gary R. Stockbridge. “The effort has been progressing well and our employees will continue to work until the job is done. Delmarva Power is working with local emergency management agencies to help ensure public safety.”
An estimated time of restoration is 4 p.m. on Friday, June 26. Most customers are expected to have their power restored prior to that time.
At its peak, the storm left 76,571 customers without power. At 3:30 p.m. today about 24,800 customers in Delaware and Maryland were without power.
The New Castle County Division of Public Safety and state public safety officials reported an outage involving one of the cell phone carriers and connections to landline phones.
. When a call is placed using a cell or mobile phone from the carrier, a busy signal was received and the call does not go through the landline. The cell phone carrier was not initially identified.
All emergency services communications in the county are operating normally.
The carrier was later identified as Verizon by Delaware 105.9, Lewes. It was also reported that complete Verizon mobile outages were reported in southern New Jersey, due to the storm. Service was restored in Delware at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, with New Jersey service in operation in the afternoon, spokesman Sheldon Jones reported.
