Storms knock out power to several hundred customers
More than 200 electrical customers in Butler County were without power this morning after trees knocked down by overnight storms brought down power lines around the county.
According to Central Electric Cooperative’s website, outages were affecting customers in five municipalities. As of 7:44 a.m. power was out to 80 people in Brady Township; 10 people in Franklin Township; 21 people in Muddy Creek Township; 14 people in West Liberty Borough; and 129 people in Worth Township.
The company was still assessing the damage as of 8:15 a.m., and did not have an estimate on when service would be restored.
According to West Penn Power’s website, fewer than five people in Connoquenessing Township had power outages this morning. The company said service should be restored to those homes by 9:30 a.m. today.