Power Outage in Catawba, VA

High Wind. Wind gusts resulted in many trees and power lines down in the Cities of Salem and Roanoke and portions of Roanoke County. This resulted in an estimated one to two thousand customers without power. Among the fallen trees, one fell and destroyed a raptor enclosure at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center which will cost $25,000 to replace. Additionally a power pole and a telephone pole were split in two. Damage values are estimated.

April 01, 2023

High winds occurred after the passage of a cold front. These winds helped to cause a great abundance of trees and power lines to be blown or taken down across the region. Given the dry conditions, some of the downed power lines parked several small brush fires.

April 01, 2023

Strong Wind. Strong winds up to 51 mph downed trees and power lines, leaving at least 9000 power customers without power throughout the City and County of Roanoke. Damage values are estimated.

December 23, 2022

In advance of the arrival of a strong, cold Arctic high pressure system, northwest winds were strong to damaging across the region with gusts within the 58 to 64 mph range during the morning of the 23rd. As the center of the Arctic high arrived, winds were not quite as strong, but falling temperatures to below zero, combined with the gusty winds produced extremely low wind chills by the morning of the 24th. Across the Virginia Mountains, these wind chills ranged as low as 25 to 41 degrees below zero, with values over portions of the Piedmont dipping 17 to 32 degrees below zero. The impact of the strong to damaging winds were trees and power lines brought down with at least 27,128 power customers without service over parts of Virginia.

December 23, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Thunderstorm winds blew down two trees around half-way between Vinton and Cloverdale with one of these trees falling across a powerline and a road. Damage values are estimated.

August 09, 2022

Roanoke, VA (9:43 AM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage ev… https://t.co/2SoecOXIxm

@grid_events - December 16, 2022 15:00

@samanthamarika1 I predict power outages and water leaks on November 8th

@tbrown1216 - November 03, 2022 13:57

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@AngelaSparkman - February 10, 2021 23:43

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@AngelaSparkman - January 28, 2020 16:31

Dowdy Ficklen having a damn concert with this power outage

@Jiddy7 - October 04, 2019 03:15