Nearly 2,000 homes and businesses served by PPL Electric are without power right now in Schuylkill County.
A majority of the outages are being reported in Tremont and West Mahanoy Township. According to the PPL Electric Outage Map, the cause of the outages is listed as “Weather”.
As of 1 p.m., there are 1,871 outages in Schuylkill County. Of those, 1,115 are being reported in Tremont and 668 are coming from West Mahanoy Township.
Isolated outages are also being reported in Cass Township (53), Kline Township (13), and in North Union, Union, and Washington townships.
We’re awaiting response from PPL Electric on a possible restoration time and the specific cause of the outages across Schuylkill County.
A heavy, wet snow combined with strong winds overnight and that’s likely the cause of these outages on Friday.
More than 76,000 PPL Electric customers are without power right now across the utility company’s service area. The most outages are being reported in Lackawanna, Pike, and Wayne counties.
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