UPDATE: Pittsburgh International Airport says power has been restored and the checkpoint area has reopened. <\/p>\n
\u201cSystems are coming back online and flights are departing and arriving.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials are telling passengers to check with their airline for flight status. <\/p>\n
Quickly moving, heavy storms knocked out power for thousands of customers around Southwestern PA Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Duquesne Light is reporting over 30,000 outages and First Energy has over 10,000 outages around the region.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh International Airport is reporting an outage that impacted its operations. <\/p>\n
\u201cA lightning strike to Duquesne Light power distribution impacted both electrical systems to our microgrid and main grid electrical feeds,\u201d the Airport said in a statement. <\/p>\n
See Duquesne Light outages HERE<\/a>, First Energy HERE<\/a><\/p>\n Duquesne Light expects to have power restored to many customers this evening, but could last longer. <\/p>\n Backup generators have restored some power to the Airport while crews work to get everything up and running.<\/p>\n Heavy winds knocked down trees in several areas, blocking roads and taking out power.<\/p>\n Many stop lights are out. If you run into an inactive stop light, treat it like a stop sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Pittsburgh International Airport says power has been restored and the checkpoint area has reopened. \u201cSystems are coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,9174,2822,6740,1133],"class_list":["post-217128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-power-outage","tag-rain","tag-storm","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217128","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=217128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}