Power crews prepare for multi-day outages | Hereâs how to report an outage Power crews prepare for multi-day outages By Karina Bolster and NBC12 Newsroom | February 18, 2021 at 7:02 PM EST - Updated February 19 at 9:40 AM CHESTERFIELD Co., Va. (WWBT) - Despite no major outages reported Thursday afternoon as a result of the second ice storm, power crews say that does not mean outages may not happen in the future. The threat of widespread outage is still real for thousands of Virginians. Many residents in the rural areas of Virginia remain without power nearly six days after it first went out. As of Thursday evening, Southside Electric Cooperative reported more than 22,000 customers still in the dark.