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Quarterly early warning systems test for North Anna Power Station set for May 19
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State officials led by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, local officials and Dominion Energy will conduct a quarterly test of the early warning siren system around the North Anna Power Station on Wednesday, May 19 at approximately 11:10 a.m.
For the early warning siren system, a steady three-minute tone will be sounded by 68 sirens in Caroline, Hanover, Louisa, Orange, and Spotsylvania counties. The sirens are located within a 10-mile radius of the power station.
It will be a few days before things get back to normal in Virginia, even after Colonial Pipeline has restarted its operations following a cyberattack that forced its systems offline last week.
Virginia has felt the effects of the attack in the form of gas shortages compounded by a fueling frenzy across the commonwealth.
The Colonial Pipeline delivers about 45% of the fuel used along the Eastern Seaboard. But even when it was shut down, Virginia officials said that there were other lines serving the state three interstate lines and one intrastate pipeline and those were unaffected by the hack, Stacie Neal, director of planning with the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, said Thursday during a news briefing.