PPL Electric Utilities restored power to more than 116,700 customers, as of 12:16 p.m. Sunday, after severe weather impacted the region Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
As of 1:40 p.m., more than 102,400 customers remained without power, according to PPL\u2019s Outage Map.<\/p>\n
Crews continue to work around the clock to repair extensive damage and restore power, company officials added.<\/p>\n
Mike Narcavage, PPL\u2019s regional affairs director for Northeastern Pennsylvania, noted PPL currently has\u00a0more than 1,000 personnel working to bring power back as safely and as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n
Narcavage added the scope of the outages differs throughout the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have ones and twos, we have hundreds, and there are some areas that have thousands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Some of the areas with the largest current outages include:<\/p>\n
\u2022 1,376 customers from Whites Crossing to Aldenville, spanning Lackawanna and Wayne counties. Crews estimate power should be restored by 2 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u2022 1,068 customers in the area of Tremont and Newtown in Schuylkill County. Crews estimate power should be restored to the area by 11 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u2022 890 customers in the Ransom Twp. area of Lackawanna County. Crews estimate power should be restored to the area by 3 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n
PPL officials noted additional severe storms with wind gusts up to 65 mph are forecast for late Sunday, which could cause additional outages, with hail, widespread rain and the potential for localized flooding continuing through Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PPL Electric Utilities restored power to more than 116,700 customers, as of 12:16 p.m. Sunday, after severe weather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,803,139,28,231,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-236174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236174","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=236174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}