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Thousands Without Power In Doylestown Area Due To Ida: PECO
As of 11:15 a.m. Thursday, there were 33 separate outages in the Doylestown area, leaving 3,417 PECO customers without power.
DOYLESTOWN, PA — More than 3,400 PECO customers in Doylestown were still without power Thursday morning after the remnants of Ida tore through Bucks County the night before.
As of 11 a.m. Thursday, there were 33 separate outages in the Doylestown area, leaving 3,417 without power, according to the company's outage map.
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Most of those outages were still “pending evaluation” by PECO crews. No outages are set to be restored before 3 p.m. Thursday, according to the company’s outage map.
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The outages have cut power to more than 1,000 customers near downtown Doylestown, with about 500 more without power in Furlong.
Ida brought up to 8 inches of rainfall to Upper Bucks County, according to the National Weather Service, causing historic flooding and knocking down countless trees and power lines through the region.
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The storm also brought numerous reports of tornadoes touching down in southeastern Pennsylvania.
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