 Luckily, someone came out pretty quickly and explained what was going on. I hadn't even looked at the news yet to hear about the global outage. She's been out here three hours so far and counting. She's glad she brought a book with her. You know, I paid for my parking. I'm like, I'm just going to hold out and hope for the best. In Northeast, Mike Murillo, WTOP News. Virginia DMV centers were closed because of the outage. Maryland, though, says its MVAs were not interrupted by all of that.