{"id":242435,"date":"2026-07-13T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:34:10","slug":"lower-merion-twp-suspends-gas-powered-leaf-blower-ban-due-to-storm-damage-in-montgomery-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242435\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Merion Twp. suspends gas-powered leaf blower ban due to storm damage in Montgomery County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WPVI;\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WPVI\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"268\" height=\"100\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aol_wpvi_878.png\"\/><\/a>Updated Mon, July 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3217ee4c-1130-44b1-9ef5-7da89e2769cc.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lower Merion Township is temporarily suspending the <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/seasonal-gas-powered-leaf-blower-ban-goes-effect-lower-merion-township\/19212775\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">gas-powered leaf blower ban<\/a> after severe storms moved through the region over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service said at least four of the microbursts brought straight-line wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph (97 to 113 kph) to Montgomery and Philadelphia counties between about 2:30 and 3:15 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The ban will be suspended through Saturday as residents and contractors work to clean up storm damage.<\/p>\n<p>Several trees came down along South Bowman Avenue in Merion Station<\/p>\n<p>Power was also knocked out, and several homes and cars were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/philadelphia-area-digs-damage-left-severe-series-microburst-storms\/19498305\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">microbursts in Philadelphia<\/a> were among a range of severe weather across the U.S. this weekend that included heatwaves, flooding and wildfires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Mon, July 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM UTC Lower Merion Township is temporarily suspending the gas-powered leaf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-242435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242435","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=242435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}