A snow and ice storm brought power outages to a large number of Mathews residents on Monday, with 2,500 customers without power at once during the peak of the storm. The height of the outages occurred between 6 and 9 a.m. on Monday, said Dominion Energy spokesman Cherise Newsome, but by 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, only 75 Mathews customers were still without power. In Gloucester, about 1,000 customers were without power during the peak of the storm at around 3 a.m. Monday, she said, but by Tuesday morning, all but around 42 customers had their power restored. Throughout the Middle Peninsula as a whole, about 3,500 customers lost power during the peak of the storm-related outages, which occurred overnight Sunday into early Monday morning, said Newsome. The storm occurred in the middle of a stretch of unusually cold weather for Virginia, said National Weather Service meteorologist Nancy Moll of the Wakefield station. Temperatures were well below average, with a high of just 30 degrees in Richm...