About 3,600 customers in Berks County were without power this morning as a result of heavy thunderstorms that passed through the region Tuesday evening.
Met-Ed reported a total of about 2,600 customers were without power as of 8:30.
PPL Electric Utilities, whose service area includes southwestern Berks, reported about 940 outages, all but about 50 in Wyomissing, as of 8:30.
Thunderstorms with strong wind gusts and torrential downpours brought down tree limbs on wires throughout much of the county, accounting for the bulk of the outages.
According to Met-Ed parent FirstEnergy Corp.’s website, some of the biggest outages were as follows:
• Hereford Township, 667
• Washington Township, 110
• Amity Township, 138
• Reading, 740
• Brecknock Township, 284
• Pike Township, 110
• Shillington, 32
• Ruscombmanor Township, 45
• Rockland Township, 45
• Bern Township, 37
• Alsace Township, 43
Source: Berkshire mont
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