Deputy Chief Andy Jackson of the Roanoke Rapids Police Department said the outage is spread across the city from Roanoke Avenue and beyond, in all about 65 percent of Dominion Power's customers within a two-mile radius of Vepco Street, which is located off Roanoke Avenue near KapStone..
The company's interactive outage map shows more than 4,600 customers without power and an estimated restoration time of between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m.
