Thursday, January 31, 2013
Traffic is still snarled in the area; residents are experiencing power outages.
Update at 3:02 p.m. on Jan. 31: As of 3 p.m., traffic is still being diverted from Rt. 29. Those driving towards Upper Providence will be detoured up Hopwood Road. Try to avoid the area. Original Story: A tree that fell into power wires on Rt. 29 has caused a road closure between Collegeville Borough and Upper Providence Township, power outages and snarled traffic in the area. According to the Upper Providence Police Department, Rt. 29 is closed between Park Avenue in Collegeville Borough and Hopwood Road in Upper Providence after a tree fell on wires around 7:45 a.m. The Montgomery County Department of Public Safety lists the incident as an outside electrical fire at Rt. 29 and Hopwood Road. A police department representative said that …
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Most of the remainder expected to be restored by Sunday night; 'isolated' customers may need to wait longer
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
Power has been restored to more than 87 percent of PECO's customers in Montgomery and Bucks counties, the utility said late Saturday afternoon. About 15,000 customers remained without power in Montgomery County, PECO said. It hopes to have most of the remaining customers back in service by midnight on Sunday night. Customers "in the most damaged and isolated areas" may not get service back until later in the week, the company said. Patch was at the scene as power was restored to one neighborhood in the Eagleville section of Lower Providence Township on Saturday evening. Abington, Cheltenham, Upper Moreland, Lower Merion, and Plymouth townships were named by PECO as the areas that remained most severely impacted by power outages. “I want to…
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Upper Providence, Springfield hit hardest in Montgomery County; Spring-Ford schools will be closed Wednesday.
A storm system packing high wind gusts and heavy rain knocked out power to thousands of customers in the northern and western Philadelphia suburbs on Tuesday evening. A PECO representative told Patch at about 7:10 p.m. on Tuesday that about 45,000 of its customers in Montgomery and Chester counties were without power following the line of storms that passed through the area during the evening rush hour. The company said it was still assessing the extent of the damage and did not have an estimate for when power would be restored to affected areas. By 8 p.m., however, the company's online outage map indicated fewer than 20,000 customers without power in those areas. In the Spring-Ford School District in western Montgomery County, an …
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Numerous power outages reported in the area
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
While weather reporters had been predicting the Nor'easter that descended upon the region today, it's still providing quite a punch to the people of Perkiomen Valley. Some people, such as Alan Todd (pictured), his grandson Bryant and Bryant's friend Ethan Price, "made lemonade," as it were, and got in some pre-winter sledding. Meanwhile, firefighters, EMS and police officers in the region have been responding to electrical fires, power outages and vehicle accidents as the snow, slush and ice take down tree branches, power lines and slick the roadways. See the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety website for up-to-the-minute coverage of live emergency incidents in the county. The conversation concerning power outages is flowing on …
Cville
12:59 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
As of 5pm, yes. And the power in that area is out again. more ›