Widespread power outages in Virginia still have no estimated restoration times. (Photo: Jay Westcott)

The heavy snow that swept through the D.C. region Wednesday night caused a painful commute for many in Northern Virginia — but the more lasting problem was the more than 100,000 people left without electricity in the wake of the storm. Dominion Virginia Power reported more than 110,000 customers without power in Northern Virginia Thursday morning, and estimated later in the day that most power would be restored by Friday evening. We'll update this post with more power outage info as we get it, and let us know how the outages are affecting you by posting in the comments or sending us a tip.

Friday, January 28 @ 5:36 a.m.: Dominion is reporting nearly 12,700 customers are still in the dark in Northern Virginia Friday morning.

6:02 p.m.: Dominion's latest outage number for Northern Virginia is a little more than 50,000 customers — meaning the utility has gotten to more than half its original peak outages today. As of 4 p.m., about 7,600 of those outages were located in Arlington, mostly scattered throughout North Arlington, Arlington Alert reports.

No word from Dominion right now on a further breakdown of outages in other jurisdictions, but we'll update you as we know more.

3:50 p.m. In a press release, Dominion now says it expects power to be restored "to at least 90 percent of the 192,000 affected customers by Friday night." That unlucky 10 percent will have to wait until Saturday at the earliest before getting power back.

The utility also offers this explanation for the severity of outages: "Heavy, sticky snow that was twice as wet as typical snow brought tree limbs and trees into contact with electrical lines and caused extremely difficult driving conditions for repair crews." Twice as wet, eh? Sounds like a job for The Facts Machine!

2 p.m. It may be hard to believe, but if D.C. area utility company responses to today's power outages were an installment of The Curve, Pepco would actually be ahead at this point.

TBD's Elahe Izadi just brought us the news that Pepco is now projecting that all customers should have power restored by 11 p.m. Friday — not exactly good news, but at least a known entity.

Dominion Virginia Power cannot make any similar promises at this hour, however. "Unfortunately, not yet," says a Dominion spokesperson when asked if they know when people can expect the power to go back on. "We're hoping to have most of that later tonight."

The power company followed that up on Twitter with a note that customers shouldn't expect individual restoration times until tomorrow morning.

Power is slowly being restored throughout the region. Arlington's outage number was 8,800 at 2 p.m., down from nearly 13,000 10 a.m. Large swaths of Fairfax County have also been restored; at 2 p.m., there were 19,500 people out of power, compared to this morning's 82,349.

The City of Alexandria hasn't been as lucky, however; its outage number has actually increased since this morning, from 1,528 to 1,900.