Apparently Dominion Power, PEPCO, etc. were really struggling to pull in workers to repair the 1,000,000 plus customers without power here. The devastation of this storm was as widespread as it was severe.

Storms like this are another reason to have a good NOAA WeatherRadio with alerts. My wife and kids rarely pay much attention to the weather reports throughout the day but they go silent and listen when the Midland 300W goes off.

Ironically, I had set aside last night to do my annual go bag inspection. The storm started howling as I was doing it.