NORFOLK, Va. — As thunderstorms and heavy rain churn through the area on Thursday, thousands of Dominion Energy customers are being left without power.
According to the Dominion Energy outage summary, more than 2,000 in the Hampton Roads and northeastern North Carolina region don't have power.
At 5 p.m. on Thursday, that number peaked to a little more than 19,000 with more than 10,000 customers in Virginia Beach and 2,400 in Norfolk who didn't have power.
At as of 10:30 p.m., the number shrank with more than 700 customers in Virginia Beach still in the dark alongside about 300 in Chesapeake.
In northeastern North Carolina, more than 1,000 customers in Dare County and 236 customers in Hertford County don't have power either. Hertford County Public Schools will operate on a two-hour delay on Friday, Feb. 7.
There's no word on when power will be restored in those areas. We'll keep updating this story as the numbers change through the evening.
You can check out Dominion Energy's outage map here.