A REC contractor works to restore power Monday night at the intersection of Oak Park and Carpenter’s Mill roads in Madison County. PJR photo by Becky Thompson.
Monday night’s thunderstorms wreaked havoc on area power grids with more than 5,000 homes and businesses left without electricity at the height of the storms.
By 8 p.m., Monday, many Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) and Dominion Energy customers in Greene, Madison, Orange, and Rappahannock counties had power restored, but 3,300 still were in the dark…