Utility crews are continuing to restore electrical outages a week after Hurricane Irene struck the East Coast.

The storm knocked out power to more than a million customers of Dominion Virginia Power; the utility reports outages number about 52,500 businesses and households mid-day Saturday, with the vast majority in the Richmond metropolitan area. Dominion said the areas that suffered the most extreme damage will have service restored Saturday.

Virginia's electrical cooperatives said Saturday that they have restored power to all of their members.

In New Jersey, there were fewer than 27,000 homes and businesses still without power as of 6 p.m. Friday, nearly all of them in JCP&L customers. The company said most customers' electricity would be restored by Saturday, except for small groups of customers in severely flooded areas, when restoration was expected by late Sunday.

More than 50,000 New Yorkers are still without power a week after the storm. Almost 100 percent of Con Edison customers' are back online, but in the hardest hit area, Long Island, LIPA reports 37,000 clients still waiting to get power back.

In upstate New York, NYSEG reported more than 6,000 outages, and Central Hudson almost 9,000. JCP&L said most of its customers' electricity would be restored by Saturday, except for small groups of customers in severely flooded areas, when restoration was expected by late Sunday.

Power outages in Vermont have been reduced to fewer than 1,000 by Friday afternoon, said Elizabeth

Miller, commissioner of the Department of Public Service. "The utilities have done a fantastic job," she said.