Severe weather conditions and storms swept across Washington’s metropolitan area Saturday with powerful winds forcing trees to topple, leaving thousands of residents and commercial places without power, killing one and injuring other two, US media reported.
According to the Power Outage US, 225,000 utility customers were left without electricity in Maryland and Virginia at about 6pm, with Pepco reporting about 15,000 customers in the District are without power.
Reports suggest that one of the injured was in serious condition after a tree fell on a car in the 2900 block of Foxhall Road NW in the District.
Prince William County Police said they were investigating the death of a man found after a tree fell onto a house in the Dumfries area.
Officials also reported damage to trees, struc-tures, and the electrical grid in both the city and suburb. The hard-hit areas were said to be the Adams Morgan, Dupont, and Sheridan Circle neighborhoods in Northwest Washington.—Agencies
