{"id":254877,"date":"2026-07-29T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254877\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:35:08","slug":"around-800-people-remain-without-power-in-berks-county-following-tuesdays-severe-storms-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254877\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 800 people remain without power in Berks County following Tuesday\u2019s severe storms | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; According to Met-Ed, about 785 homes in the area remain without power following severe storms and flooding that affected residents around the county on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The reported Met-Ed totals around Berks County are listed below:<\/p>\n<p>140 homes in Alsace TWP.<\/p>\n<p>50 homes in Centre TWP.<\/p>\n<p>85 in Lower Alsace TWP.<\/p>\n<p>170 in Muhlenberg TWP.<\/p>\n<p>145 in Reading City<\/p>\n<p>35 in Rockland TWP.<\/p>\n<p>80 in Ruscombmanor TWP.<\/p>\n<p>25 in Windsor TWP.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple rounds of heavy rain and thunderstorms were seen throughout Pennsylvania over the course of the day, with the National Weather Service issuing a Flash Flood Warning for numerous areas around Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>The storms caused several trees and power lines to come down, which continues to affect both cell service and power Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; According to Met-Ed, about 785 homes in the area remain without power following severe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7673,349,26030,21682,35003,28,9174,128,130,129,62454],"class_list":["post-254877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-alsace-township","tag-berks-county","tag-emergency-response","tag-flooding","tag-met-ed","tag-pennsylvania","tag-power-outage","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-severe-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254877","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=254877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}