{"id":213062,"date":"2026-06-07T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213062\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:56:33","slug":"high-winds-cause-power-outages-in-city-of-erie-on-saturday-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213062\/","title":{"rendered":"High Winds Cause Power Outages in City of Erie on Saturday | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As forecasted, strong storms swept through Northwest Pennsylvania on Saturday, bringing high winds and causing damage across the region.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"POWER.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1081\" height=\"537\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>In Crawford County, the severe weather knocked down trees, creating hazardous conditions in several areas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Erie County, the storms led to widespread power outages that affected thousands of customers Saturday afternoon. The outages also left traffic signals dark at numerous intersections throughout the city of Erie and surrounding communities for several hours, creating traffic delays and prompting drivers to exercise caution.<\/p>\n<p>Utility crews worked throughout the afternoon and evening to restore service as residents dealt with the aftermath of the storm system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As forecasted, strong storms swept through Northwest Pennsylvania on Saturday, bringing high winds and causing damage across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19036,136,138,137,34890,18840,9174,34893,570,63987],"class_list":["post-213062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-crawford-county","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-high-winds","tag-northwest-pennsylvania","tag-power-outage","tag-storm-damage","tag-traffic-signals","tag-utility-crews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213062","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=213062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}