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Thousands Without Power After Damaging Winds Whip Through Maryland: BGE

Thousands in Maryland are still without power late on Monday afternoon after whipping winds caused chaos in some neighborhoods.

Zak Failla
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Trees were toppled and power lines were downed during the weather event, which saw gusts approaching 60 mph overnight in parts of the state.

The overnight wind gusts in Maryland.

National Weather Service

As of 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, BGE was still reporting more than 1,700 active outages, impacting 21,891 of the company's 1.32 million customers.

According to BGE there were still outages impacting residents and businesses: 

  • Anne Arundel: 235 outages impacting 4,092 customers;
  • Baltimore County: 699 outages impacting 9,364 customers;
  • Baltimore City: 251 outages impacting 1,935 customers;
  • Calvert: One outage;
  • Carroll: 111 outages impacting 1,206 customers;
  • Harford: 142 outages impacting 1,143 customers;
  • Howard: 167 outages impacting 2,508 customers;
  • Montgomery: 21 outages impacting 283 customers;
  • Prince George's: 79 outages impacting 1,619 customers.

The BGE Outage Map on Monday, Feb. 17.

BGE

Crews have been working around the clock to restore power to those impacted by the storm. 

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