Update 6 - 5/19 - 6am:
According to BGE, approximately 606 customers are still without service across central Maryland.
That means about 210 outage jobs remain.
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Update 5 - 5/18 - 6am:
According to BGE, approximately 4,700 customers remain without service across central Maryland.
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Update 4 - 5/17 - 11pm:
According to BGE, approximately 6,140 customers are still without service across central Maryland.
Overall, 74,200 customers were impacted by the May 16 storm hitting hardest in Baltimore City as well as Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard Counties.
"We restored 80% of customers by 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 17—seven hours ahead of our projected time," BGE said in a statement. "We expect to restore the vast majority of the remaining customers by late Sunday night, May 18, with some outages with extensive damage continuing into Monday."
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Update 3: As of 2 p.m., about 14,000 customers are without service. 80% of customers have been restored, BGE says.
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Update 2: As of 8:30 a.m., about 17,370 customers are still without power. BGE says service should be restored to 80% of customers by 8 p.m. on Saturday and the vast majority of customers by midnight Sunday, May 18.
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9:15pm Update 1
- BGE is reporting 59,050 customers without power
- The hardest hit areas are Howard, Carroll, and Baltimore Counties and Baltimore City
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We are currently tracking outages in the Maryland-area amid severe weather.
At this time, there are 648 active outages, with 51,993 customers affected.
The tracker was last updated at 7:33 PM.
It is advised for residents to stay inside at this time.
BGE asks all customers to report their outage [secure.bge.com] in any of the following ways:
- Online at BGE.com [secure.bge.com]
- BGE's free mobile app, available at the Apple Store [apps.apple.com] or Google Play [play.google.com]
- Text message, to 69243
- Phone, by calling 877-778-2222
*Stay with WMAR as we continue to monitor outages in Maryland.*
