Thursday, November 28, 2019

Power Outages Reported Across Schuylkill County Early Thursday

Early Thanksgiving morning, hundreds of homes are reported to be without power as high winds move through Schuylkill County.


According to PPL, as of 12:30am, 938 customers are without power.

The largest outages have reported to be in West Penn Township with 651 homes and Tamaqua with 128.

Update (1:00am):  Another large outage has been reported in the West Brunswick Township area.

Other outages having been reported in
 - Butler Township
 - Hegins Township
 - North Union Township
 - Pine Grove Township
 - Rush Township
 - Wayne Township
 - West Brunswick Township

PPL crews are out working on the outages along with emergency personnel clearing fallen trees.