Nearly 4,000 PPL Electric customers in Schuylkill County remain without power Thursday morning as the prolonged outage enters its third day.
Power was knocked out to tens of thousands in Schuylkill County starting early Tuesday morning following a heavy snowstorm dropped at least 6 inches of snow across the area. Many areas received more snow than that.
That heavy, wet snow snapped trees and brought down power lines across Schuylkill County.
At the height of outages in Schuylkill County, more than 28,000 homes and businesses were without power.
On Wednesday night, there were still more than 12,000 without power locally. So more than half of those were restored since last night but a significant amount are still in the dark and cold. Temperatures in Schuylkill County dropped into the teens overnight.
PPL has deployed more than a hundred subcontractors to help with restoring power across its service area.
Of the nearly 4,000 outages still being reported, nearly half are located in South Manheim Township. Power is expected to be restored to all customers in Schuylkill County by Thursday night, about 60 hours after it was first lost.
Here’s where all the outages are currently being reported (as of 10:15 a.m. Thursday):
| Municipality | Outages (Feb. 15th) | Total Customers Served |
|---|---|---|
| Auburn Boro | 50 | 1,481 |
| Barry Twp | 144 | 297 |
| Blythe Twp | 177 | 1,216 |
| Branch Twp | 52 | 4,752 |
| Butler Twp | 64 | 5,546 |
| Cass Twp | 87 | 580 |
| Cressona Boro | 46 | 6,293 |
| East Brunswick Twp | 76 | 927 |
| East Norwegian Twp | 11 | 3,619 |
| East Union Twp | 20 | 3,085 |
| Eldred Twp | 23 | 920 |
| Hegins Twp | 80 | 3,098 |
| Hubley Twp | 122 | 539 |
| Minersville Boro | 9 | 2,741 |
| North Manheim Twp | 85 | 1,016 |
| North Union Twp | 10 | 1,481 |
| Norwegian Twp | 1 | 7,564 |
| Palo Alto Boro | 9 | 490 |
| Pine Grove Twp | 224 | 5,041 |
| Port Carbon Boro | 66 | 2,496 |
| Porter Twp | 26 | 1,279 |
| Pottsville | 5 | 9,160 |
| South Manheim Twp | 1,744 | 2,023 |
| Tremont Boro | 4 | 1,111 |
| Tremont Twp | 15 | 1,138 |
| Union Twp | 41 | 1,910 |
| Upper Mahantongo Twp | 6 | 297 |
| Washington Twp | 257 | 682 |
| Wayne Twp | 142 | 2,163 |
| West Brunswick Twp | 288 | 2,498 |
| West Penn Twp | 1 | 3,814 |
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