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This story was updated at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Power has been restored to an Alexandria and Arlington neighborhood after an afternoon outage that knocked out traffic signals along Seminary Road.
Dominion Energy's outage summary showed no customers without power in either Alexandria or Arlington as of 5:45 p.m. Monday. Roughly two hours earlier, the utility had reported 978 customers out in Alexandria and 1,182 in Arlington.
The restoration came well ahead of Dominion's earlier estimate, which had put power back between 8 and 11 p.m.
Alexandria police issued a traffic alert shortly after 3 p.m., saying several signals along Seminary Road were dark and asking drivers to treat those intersections as four-way stops.
Dominion's map had shown an outage area running north from Duke Street through Seminary Hill and the North Quaker Lane corridor and across the city line into Fairlington and the southern edge of Arlington. The utility listed 2,160 customers affected across the full area and gave the cause as pending investigation.
Neither the Police Department nor Dominion said whether the outage caused the signal failures, though the two coincided.
The city has not said whether the traffic signals have returned to service. Power restoration and signal restoration do not always happen at the same time.
The Alexandria Brief has requested more information. This story will be updated.
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