Thousands of power outages reported, as winds topple trees | Monroe County Area

PENNSYLVANIA – Thousands of customers in our area are waking up Thursday morning without any power.

According to the website poweroutage.us, more than 3,000 customers in Monroe County are in the dark.

More than 2,000 are without power in Northampton and Bucks counties.

And more than 1,000 customers are without power in Lehigh and Berks counties.

In North Whitehall Township, a tree fell on a home. And in Allentown, a tree came down on wires, prompting firefighters to respond to the scene.

Over in New Jersey, Warren County has more than 2,000 outages, while Hunterdon County has more than 1,000.

WFMZ-TV meteorologist Clayton Stiver said there were wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour in some areas. The gusts brought down tree limbs, and in some cases, trees onto wires.

Meanwhile, Met-Ed/First Energy was reporting sporadic outages, but not to the magnitude of the ones in the PPL service area.

To see how the wind is affecting the power in your area, visit PPL’s outage map.