Monday, March 11, 2024

Over 1,500 Schuylkill County Homes Without Power Monday Afternoon


High winds are knocking down trees and taking power lines with them around Schuylkill County on Monday afternoon.

As of 2:45pm, Monday, PPL reports that 1,516 homes were without power.

The largest outages were reported in West Penn Township with 440 outages and West Brunswick Township with 206 outages.

Other outages included
  • Cressona - 120
  • Mount Carbon - 57
  • North Manheim Township - 137
  • Pine Grove Township - 132
  • Rush Township - 13
  • South Manheim Township - 9
  • Tamaqua - 144
  • Washington Township - 47
  • Wayne Township - 50
All the outages have an estimated repair time of 3:00pm, Tuesday.  Typically power is restored well before that time.