Nearly 2,000 in Schuylkill County Still Without Electricity

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: