{"id":261329,"date":"2026-08-08T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261329\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:12:08","slug":"thousands-lose-power-across-region-as-severe-storms-roll-through-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261329\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands lose power across region as severe storms roll through | Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gusty storms rolling through our region are causing thousands of customers to lose power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Lehigh County, over 600 PPL Utilities customers are without power, according to the outage map.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Northampton County, over 500 customers are in the dark between PPL Utilities and Met-Ed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other counties in our coverage area being affected are as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BERKS:\u00a033<\/p>\n<p>BUCKS: 1,834<\/p>\n<p>CARBON: 77<\/p>\n<p>MONROE:\u00a02,345<\/p>\n<p>MONTGOMERY: 80<\/p>\n<p>SCHUYLKILL:\u00a03<\/p>\n<p>You can click <a href=\"https:\/\/outages-pa.firstenergycorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> to view outage updates for Met-Ed, and <a href=\"https:\/\/omap.prod.pplweb.com\/OMAP#pg-tabular\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> for PPL Utilities updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gusty storms rolling through our region are causing thousands of customers to lose power.\u00a0 In Lehigh County, over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,279,805,434,28,7445,7446,1133],"class_list":["post-261329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-berks","tag-lehighvalley","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-poconos-coal","tag-southeastern-pa","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261329","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=261329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261329\/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=261329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}