More Than 2,000 Lost Power in Va.

A falling tree left more than 2,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers in Northern Virginia without power Saturday night. Some will remain in the dark until dinnertime on Sunday, authorities said.

At about 6 p.m. Saturday, a falling tree knocked down two power poles near Old Courthouse Road and Tyson's Corner, knocking out electricity to 2,120 customers in that area, said Richard Zuercher, spokesman for Dominion Virginia Power. He said it was not clear why the tree fell, though it seemed unreleated to the largely wind-free storm that has swept across the D.C. area for three days.

Within a minute, power was restored to 425 customers, Zuercher said, and crews worked through the night and early morning to repair the remaining damage. As of about noon Sunday, 220 were without electricity. Zuercher said all customers should have their power restored by 6 p.m.

Anne Bolling-Saad, who lives on Best Bower Court in Vienna, said she returned home at about 1 a.m. Sunday to discover her home had no electricity. The inside temperature had dropped to 64 degrees, she said, so she had her husband donned sweaters and turned on the gas fireplace to stay warm through the early morning hours.

"I think [my husband] was surprised that there was not a faster response," Bolling-Saad said. "I would like the heat on."

According to Dominion Virginia Power's online outage map, a few hundred people were also without electricity in Arlington and Loudoun counties. Zuercher said he had no information on those outages, but it was not uncommon for a small number of people to be without power at any given time.