Severe storms that tore through Annapolis late Friday displaced two families after trees fell onto residential structures and left nearly 800 Baltimore Gas and Electric customers without power by noon Saturday. City officials said no injuries were reported.
By Saturday morning, city crews were out assessing damage and clearing debris from public areas, while the Annapolis Office of Emergency Management coordinated the response. Mayor Jared Littmann said he had been in touch with BGE governmental liaison officials, and noted that some substations were damaged.
The neighborhoods that appeared to take the hardest hit were West Annapolis and Admiral Heights. Late Friday night, the Department of Public Works sent cut-and-toss teams to clear downed trees from roadways and restore traffic patterns, and crews finished a 12-hour overnight shift before continuing cleanup work with BGE.
Most of the property damage reports that came in involved only minor damage, city officials said, but the storm still forced two families out of their homes and left a larger part of the city waiting on power restoration. The city also began a broader property assessment at 7 a.m. Saturday, after the first reports came in and before the full scale of the outage was known.
Officials urged residents to treat downed wires as dangerous and to stay away from trees or branches resting on or near power lines. The Annapolis Call Center, at 410-260-2211, was open for non-emergency storm recovery calls as cleanup and restoration continued.
The immediate question now is how quickly BGE can bring the remaining customers back online while city crews keep clearing streets and checking damaged properties across Annapolis.
