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Thousands without power for more than 1 hour in Calvert County

Some 8,000 customers were in the dark for more than hour Tuesday night in Calvert County, Maryland.

Those in the dark were over 99% of BGE customers in the county.

Power was slowly restored after 10 p.m.

There’s were also more than 2,000 outages reported in Anne Arundel County.

BGE said a repair crew was on the way and the lights should return at around 10:45 p.m.

No reason has been give for the cause of the outage.

²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ has reached out to BGE for comment.

Laura Spitalniak

Laura Spitalniak joined the ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ edit desk at the beginning of 2020. She previously worked at WAMU, ABC ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ and CBS ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½. She is a graduate of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and the daughter of a librarian.

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