CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Three Chesterfield County Public Schools are closed today due to power outages.
Students from Crenshaw Elementary School, Davis Middle School and Matoaca High School will not report to class today and instead stay home. It’s unclear if students will instead have a remote learning day.
School officials say staff members at those schools should also work from home.
Severe thunderstorms rolled through Central Virginia Thursday night, leaving thousands of homes and businesses without power.
According to the Dominion Energy outage map, here’s how many customers are without power in each area as of 6 a.m.:
- City of Richmond — 12,466 customers without power (120,045 total customers)
- Henrico County — 4,760 customers without power (156,111 total customers)
- Chesterfield County — 16,741 customers without power (160,566 total customers)
- Hanover County — 1,447 customers without power (44,475 total customers)
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