Deluge ’08?

• Orange line trains are terminating at East Falls Church after power lines fell on both tracks between the East Falls Church and West Falls Church stations at about 3:30 p.m., WTOP is reporting. Metro will provide a free shuttle bus in both directions. Power is also out at the Georgia Ave./Petworth Metro station, though Green and Yellow line trains continue to run and the station is still open. There’s no indication yet when these outages will be fixed, so expect the evening rail commute to be as messed up as the one on the roads.
• Big time power outages throughout the Metro region. Pepco’s web site says 126,254 customers are without power in D.C. and Maryland as of 4:30 p.m., and Dominion Power says a whopping 239,231 are without power in Northern Virginia.
• We’re hearing that a tornado did indeed touch down in Falls Church.

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