Almost 2,000 homes and businesses in Schuylkill County remain without electricity following Wednesday evening’s severe thunderstorms.
As of 9 a.m., PPL Electric is reporting 1,950 outages here.
Butler, East Brunswick, South Manheim, Walker, and West Brunswick townships each have more than 100 outages. Nearly 500 homes and businesses in Butler Township are still powerless.
Severe thunderstorms rolled through Schuylkill County at about 6 p.m. on Wednesday. They knocked out power for more than 11,000 PPL customers soon afterward.
The utility company tells The Canary that 600 additional line workers were contracted to help restore power to tens of thousands of its customers across the entire service area, which includes 29 counties in Pennsylvania.
Based on PPL’s outage map, electric service may not be restored until 11 p.m. Friday for many here in Schuylkill County.
Here are all the outages across Schuylkill County by municipality:
| Municipality | Outages |
|---|---|
| Ashland | 37 |
| Barry Twp | 6 |
| Butler Twp | 491 |
| Cass Twp | 21 |
| Coaldale | 1 |
| Cressona | 11 |
| East Brunswick Twp | 291 |
| East Union Twp | 2 |
| Eldred Twp | 1 |
| Gilberton | 14 |
| Hegins Twp | 24 |
| Hubley Twp | 6 |
| Kline Twp | 3 |
| Minersville | 6 |
| Mount Carbon | 57 |
| North Manheim Twp | 34 |
| North Union Twp | 1 |
| Norwegian Twp | 6 |
| Pine Grove Twp | 45 |
| Porter Twp | 61 |
| Pottsville | 42 |
| Reilly Twp | 36 |
| Rush Twp | 55 |
| Ryan Twp | 78 |
| South Manheim Twp | 111 |
| Tamaqua | 12 |
| Tremont | 8 |
| Union Twp | 28 |
| Walker Twp | 117 |
| Washington Twp | 70 |
| Wayne Twp | 80 |
| West Brunswick Twp | 130 |
| West Mahanoy Twp | 4 |
| West Penn Twp | 61 |
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johannes marowskus
July 1, 2024 at 7:31 am
This is absolute bull crap.
Having to endure this in todays day and age is unheard of not to mention not acceptable. What is going on with PPL? We are not talking mid-January with two feet of snow in subzero conditions with a 50 mph wind. There is more than meets the eye going on with this company than is being told. Im happy they have no delay in sending/accepting their bills/payments.