Metro will resume its bus and rail services on a limited schedule at 2 p.m. today, the transit agency announced. Though it braced for far worse, Metro was not nearly as affected by Hurricane Sandy as mass transportation systems in other cities hit by the storm.

Trains will resume operating this afternoon on a Sunday schedule, as will most bus routes. MetroAccess vans will remain out-of-service until tomorrow.

Damage to Metro property was minimal, spokesman Dan Stessel tells DCist. “We had some minor issues that were addressed this morning—construction fencing that had blown onto the tracks, some water infiltration in tunnels,” he says. “But nothing that would prevent us from restoring service later today.”

Still, the day-and-a-half shutdown of Metro was a momentous effect of Hurricane Sandy, the first system-wide shutdown since 2003 when Hurricane Isabel swept through the area. On Sunday, when the shutdown was announced, Metro attributed the decision to the potential power outages by Pepco or Dominion Energy.

During the storm, Stessel says, the lights flickered at a handful of stations, but power to the third rail stayed on the entire time.