Over 8,000 Central Virginia homes, businesses without power as storms hit

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Over 8,000 Central Virginia homes and businesses are without power Tuesday evening as severe storms batter the region.

Severe storms hit Central Virginia on Tuesday, July 1, bringing high-speed winds and heavy downpours to the area. As a result of those storms, tens of thousands of buildings lost power.

As of 8 p.m. on Tuesday, about 8,592 Dominion Energy customers in Central Virginia have no power. This includes outages in the following localities:

• Richmond: 3,731 homes and businesses without power
• Henrico County: 3,703 homes and businesses without power
• Hanover County: 436 homes and businesses without power
• Powhatan County: 316 homes and businesses without power
• Goochland County: 256 homes and businesses without power
• Chesterfield County: 85 homes and businesses without power
• Essex County: 65 homes and businesses without power

At one point Tuesday evening, over 13,000 customers had no power -- with more than 7,000 of those homes and businesses in Richmond.

For real-time information on these outages and to look up the estimated time of restoration in your area, visit Dominion Energy's Outage Map.

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