VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — More than 10,000 people lost power Wednesday morning in Virginia Beach after a squirrel got into a substation, Dominion Energy says.
The outage stretched from the Kempsville area northeast across I-264 to the King’s Grant neighborhood, including Town Center.
Dominion expected power to be back sometime between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., but was able to restore power to about half of those affected shortly after things went out.
Dominion spokesperson Bonita Billingsley Harris then said in a tweet at 10:05 a.m. that all of the outages had been restored. The squirrel did not survive after getting into a substation around 8:45 a.m., causing the outage.
The outage area included multiple schools, but a Virginia Beach Schools spokesperson said there were no changes to school schedules.
To view the outage map, click here.