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Source: Fairfax County Times
A deadly storm ripped through the Washington D.C. region on Wednesday afternoon, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power, trees sprawled across roads and people stranded in their cars across Fairfax County.
The storm hit the Dulles area around 2:45 p.m. and continued for almost an hour, Chris Strong, a spokesman for the National Weather Service, said. Tornado warnings were issued for several counties across Northern Virginia, including Fairfax County, although none of the funnel clouds touched down in the county, based on initial reports, he said.
According to Fairfax County Police Officer Shelly Broderick, a tree fell on a vehicle in Annandale on Hummer Road near Marshall Drive, killing a person.
Metrorail service from West Falls Church to East Falls Church stations was canceled, causing delays on other parts of the Metro line. Shuttle buses are available for some of the commuters needing to use those lines.
The storm hit as Fairfax County Public School students were being released, so some of them were on the road, according to school spokesman Paul Regnier.
“ We have no reports of people being hurt,” Regnier said. Many students were kept at schools until much of the storm passed and were released slowly.
There were 240,000 Dominion Virginia Power costumers without power around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, most of them in Northern Virginia, according to Le-ha Anderson, a spokeswoman for the power company that services much of the region.
Anderson said the company is trying to determine how long it will take to restore power to customers.
It's difficult to tell where the storm was strongest, but “it hit Loudoun and Fairfax pretty good,” Strong said.
A second storm was expected to sweep across the some of the state later in the evening, but as of 5 p.m., it looked like it was going to hit south of Fairfax County, according to Strong.

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