SEP-B-4
AFTERMATH:
THE OFFICIAL
AND THE MOST EXTENSIVE POWER OUTAGE
FROM FALLEN TREES:
700,000 IN SUBURBAN MD AND 1.8 MILLION
IN VA
WITH THE CLEANUP ESTIMATE IN MONTHS
Not only are there record numbers of people without power in the areas (1.8 million households in VA translates to 6—8 million people affected) but there will be no relief of these services for over a week. The PEPCO and Baltimore Gas and Electric are distributing dry ice to those who are not likely to get renewed electricity for a week.
There are over 300 trees downed in DC alone, and many times that number in MD—my own collection boosting that number considerably. The likelihood of that being cleaned up at any time in the next weeks is low since there are other more urgent priorities in the interval. Among them was the construction schedule at Derwood which has been revised to a later completion just as the storm hit.
I just received a garbled call from the ELDP program on the Ashburn Campus of the GSEHD (Graduate School of Education and Human Development) which I had to call back on the incomplete message left to learn that the graduate seminar is still on, and they are confirming my attendance, and understand that I have been frustrated in getting the books and readings from the libraries or bookstores, both closed as is the university yet.