Thousands of people on Erie’s east side and in downtown Erie are without power on Sunday afternoon.
According to Penelec’s website, as of 1:00 p.m. Over 4,000 customers are without power.
The area impacted the most is around Parade street, but outages extend towards Buffalo Road, State and French Streets near the bayfront.
According to Penelec’s website, crews are investigating the outage and working on the issue.
Power is expected to be restored around 2:30 p.m.