 stories we're following we can say goodbye at least temporarily to the severe thunderstorms but they packed 70 mile per hour winds rolling through our area in the afternoon and into the evening and they've left thousands of people in the dark and without ac pepco reports about 17 000 homes and businesses are without power in prince george's county at this hour then we have in dc another 3 500 customers out for pepco dominion energy with almost a thousand customers still without power