Western Pennsylvania is not immune to winter storms.
Why was Thursday’s event different than others?
“Our meteorologist described it as ‘death by a million cuts.’ If this type of storm would have happened later on in the winter, it wouldn’t have been a big deal. However, there is still a lot of leaves on the trees..that allowed a coating of ice, a tenth of an inch or more, plus a couple inches of heavy, wet snow, to load these trees up. It broke a lot of limbs, and it also caused down entire trees,” Todd Meyers- with West Penn Power- said.
The number of outages is gradually starting to decline. At its peak on Friday more than 36,000 West Penn Power customers were without power. That was about 30 percent of all West Penn customers in the county.
As of 10 a.m. Saturday, more than 20,000 West Penn Power customers in Butler County were still in the dark.
Meyers says crews are working 16 hour shifts, 24/7.
Crews from Maryland, West Virginia and the eastern part of the state are being pulled into the Butler County area to provide assistance to the West Penn crews already stationed here.
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