Severe thunderstorms damage both transmission and distribution facilities
ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PPL Electric Utilities said it will be a multiple day effort to restore power to all customers affected by severe thunderstorms that rolled through the Susquehanna Valley and northeastern PennsylvaniaThursday night. The storm interrupted some of the utility's transmission and distribution facilities and knocked out about 120,000 customers at the peak.
As of 9 a.m. today, PPL Electric Utilities reports almost 65,000 customers without service across its territory with the most affected in Dauphin, Cumberland and York counties in the Susquehanna Valley and Pike, Monroe, Wayne and Carbon counties in the Poconos. Storm outage updates are posted on the Outage Center at www.pplelectric.com.
The utility continues working on a full assessment of the storm's damage effects on power lines and related equipment. There are outages in 26 counties with more than 1,300 individual cases of trouble requiring multiple crews to repair.
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