{"id":27000,"date":"2025-11-06T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27000\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:15:09","slug":"it-sounded-like-a-bomb-gusty-winds-knock-down-trees-cause-power-outages-in-lehigh-valley-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27000\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It sounded like a bomb&#8217;: Gusty winds knock down trees, cause power outages in Lehigh Valley | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALMER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Gusty winds continue to sweep through our region, leaving thousands of customers without power.<\/p>\n<p>Some people in Northampton County are left cleaning up the damage from downed trees and wires.<\/p>\n<p>A long Wednesday night of powerful winds caused quite a scare for 48-year Palmer Township resident Mark Hefele.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Gusty winds knocks down trees, causes power outages in Lehigh Valley\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/690cd6b0a7751.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Cierra Genelle<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It sounded like a bomb,&#8221; Hefele said.<\/p>\n<p>His neighbor&#8217;s tree came crashing down onto Baldwin Drive, knocking out a stop sign, pulling down energized wires, and causing drivers to figure out a new route around the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[I] called MetEd at 10 p.m. Well, they couldn&#8217;t come out because of the wind storm. They said 7.am., they&#8217;ll be out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the generator in Hefele&#8217;s front yard has its work cut out, going strong nearly twelve hours.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Gusty winds knocks down trees, causes power outages in Lehigh Valley\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/690cd4c07c3db.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Cierra Genelle<\/p>\n<p>The winds continue to cause damage across the region, including in Lehigh County. In North Whitehall Township, a tree slammed into a mobile home.<\/p>\n<p>In Allentown, other trees took out power lines.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Gusty winds knocks down trees, causes power outages in Lehigh Valley\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/690cd70808ce9.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Cierra Genelle<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of customers in Lehigh, Northampton, and neighboring counties are still anxiously waiting for the lights to turn back on.<\/p>\n<p>But Hefele is thinking positive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Could always be worse, could be a little better too,&#8221; Hefele said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TWP., Pa. &#8211; Gusty winds continue to sweep through our region, leaving thousands of customers without power.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,3656,434,2182],"class_list":["post-27000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-north-whitehall-township","tag-northampton-county","tag-palmer-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000","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=27000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}