{"id":141709,"date":"2026-03-18T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141709\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:30:09","slug":"crews-continue-to-restore-power-to-customers-in-berks-lehigh-valley-after-mondays-strong-winds-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/141709\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews continue to restore power to customers in Berks, Lehigh Valley after Monday&#8217;s strong winds | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are slowly returning to normal after strong winds tore through the region Monday night, leaving damage across several communities.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 24 hours later, thousands are still without power across our area.<\/p>\n<p>In Lehigh County, around 1500 customers remain in the dark, with restoration expected by around 2 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In Berks County, outages are higher. 1900 customers are still affected, especially in Brecknock and Union townships, as crews continue working to restore service by 11 p.m.\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things are slowly returning to normal after strong winds tore through the region Monday night, leaving damage across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,157,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-141709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}