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Strong storms swept through Berks County and the region early Thursday evening, knocking out power for 1,673 Met-Ed customers and 53 PPL customers as utility crews kept working into Friday.
The outages were spread across Bernville and the townships of Exeter, Greenwich, Penn, Pike, Robeson and Ruscombmanor, showing that the storm hit a wide stretch of the county rather than one isolated pocket. For people searching for a CPS power outage update, the headline number was not a single brief interruption but a systemwide disruption affecting more than 1,700 customers.
PPL had estimated that customers in the Wyomissing area would have service back by 3:30 a.m. Friday, but that did not mean the county was back on its feet by dawn. As of 9 a.m. Friday, FirstEnergy still had 888 customers without power in Berks, a reminder that restoration times can diverge sharply from one service area to another even after the same storm moves through.
The difference comes down to how far crews have gotten, how many individual outages remain, and how quickly utilities can assess damage after a fast-moving line of storms. FirstEnergy was still assessing the outages Friday morning, which leaves the final restoration timeline open for the remaining customers waiting on lights, heat and routine service to return.
That is the part residents will watch next: how quickly the last 888 customers in Berks come back online after the first wave of repairs and estimates has already passed. For now, the storm has done its damage, the utilities are still sorting out the fallout, and the county is waiting on the final stretches of the repair work.
