{"id":225437,"date":"2026-06-23T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225437\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:01:10","slug":"hundreds-without-power-in-northern-berks-co-after-severe-weather-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225437\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds without power in Northern Berks Co. after severe weather | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND TWP., Pa. &#8211; Met\u2011Ed is reporting 217 power outages in the Richmond Township area after a day of severe weather.<\/p>\n<p>According to the utility\u2019s outage map, a crew is on scene investigating the cause. The outage appears to be centered along Crystal Ridge Road, affecting the stretch between the 300 block of Moselem Church Road and the intersection of Crystal Cave Road and Kempsville Road.<\/p>\n<p>Met-Ed officials say power is currently estimated to be restored around 12:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>For updates, visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/outages-pa.firstenergycorp.com\/?address=19530&amp;gpsMarker=show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Met\u2011Ed outage map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHMOND TWP., Pa. &#8211; Met\u2011Ed is reporting 217 power outages in the Richmond Township area after a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[97892,97890,97893,35003,97891,9174,128,130,129,12128,6654,1522,97889],"class_list":["post-225437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crystal-cave-road","tag-crystal-ridge-road","tag-kempsville-road","tag-met-ed","tag-moselem-church-road","tag-power-outage","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-richmond-township","tag-road-closure","tag-severe-weather","tag-utility-crew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225437","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=225437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}