3 days after storm, power crews still making repairs
Three days after the violent storms that knocked out power to a total of 610,000 homes and businesses in South Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania, utility crews Friday still were battling storm damage.
Three days after the violent storms that knocked out power to a total of 610,000 homes and businesses in South Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania, utility crews Friday still were battling storm damage.
As of Friday afternoon, about 90,000 utility customers in New Jersey remained without power.
On the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, where the storms turned out the lights for 260,000 PECO customers, fewer than 14,000 remained without power. Most of those were in Delaware County in areas where the storms focused their fury.
"There may be customers in the hardest hit areas where our repair work will continue into the weekend," said Cathy Engel Menendez, a PECO spokeswoman.
Since the storm, PECO has replaced 15,151 fuses, 143 utility poles, 55 transformers, and 73 miles of cable across the service territory, she said. The company enlisted the help of 1,500 local including Baltimore Gas & Electric crews. Field personnel from Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New York assisted with the recovery.
- Mari A. Schaefer