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Storm Outages Affecting Takoma Park

Over 10,000 Pepco customers in the D.C. region are without power.

There are about 555 Pepco customer outages in Takoma Park so far and 10,129 accross the Washington metro region. That's a far cry from the 748,000 outages from the June 29 storm, but it's still an inconvenience to some.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was been issued for Montgomery County and surrounding areas in the Washington-Baltimore region until 9 p.m. tonight. 

That has area power companies prepping customers for potential weather-related power outages across the region. 

Find out what's happening in Takoma Parkwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

Pepco announced earlier today that it is monitoring the forecasts, warning that powerful winds could knock out electricity in some areas. Pepco has taken the precautionary move to schedule additional technicians and call center personnel to work through the night.

Do you have power right now? Let us know in the comments whether you've been affected

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