Power Still Out For 4,857 Chester County Residents: PECO

CHESTER COUNTY, PA —A total of 4,857 customers were still without power at 7:15 p.m. Friday in the wake of a rainy, icy mixture that started this morning.

At the highpoint this morning, there were 10,629 customers without power.

The outages are scattered throughout the entire 759 square-mile county.

The weather forecast calls for temperates at 10 degrees and wind gusts around 22 mph. The accumulation is predicted at less than 1 inch, according to Accu-Weather, based in State College, Centre County.

Police reported traffic incidents on highways and road throughout the county.

During the evening rush, traffic was backed up westbound on Route 422 following a crash at Royerford Road and Route 29.

A hit-and-run crash was reported at 4:50 p.m. at Eagle Boulevard, Uwchlan Township

Other accident locations include:

• West Chester Pike and North Five Points Road, West Goshen Township;
• East Lincoln Highway and North First Avenue and Belmont Street and South Sixth Avenue; both in Coatestville; Madison Street and East Eighth Street
• Spencer and North Fairfield roads, Easttown;
• Conestoga and Byers Road, Chester Springs;
• Evergreen Street and Prospect Avenue West Grove;
• Bridge and Gay streets, Phoenixville and Bateman Drive and Blackrock Road
• Allerton and Lucky Hill roads, East Bradford Towbship;
• Charlestown Road and County Lane, Charlestown.
• Caln Road and Olive Street; East Caln Township
• Warren Avenue and Davis Road, Willistown Township.

On Saturday, the high temperature is expected to be 17 degrees, with a low at 13 degrees.

Here are the areas where there are more than 100 outages were still report at 7 p.m. in Chester County:

• Charlestown: 269
• East Bradford: 302
• East Brandywine: 123
• East Goshen: 391
• London Britian: 135
• Tredyffrin: 495
• West Goshen: 240
• West Pikeland: 329
• Westtown 682
• Willistown: 318

Other municipalities scattered throughout the county reported less than 100 customers affected.

Safety tips from PECO:

• Don't light candles; they could start a fire.

• Don't use a gas cooking range for emergency heating; it could build up deadly carbon monoxide fumes.

• Turn off or unplug electronic equipment and appliances.

• Always use a metal screen over fireplace openings and clear the hearth of any materials to catch flying sparks.

• Generators should only be used outside in well-ventilated, dry areas, away from air intake into the home. Never use a generator inside your home or in an attached garage. See “Use Generators Properly” for more information.

• Stay away from fallen or low-hanging wires or anything they touch. Call PECO at 1-800-841-4141 to report wire emergencies.  If wires fall on your vehicle, do not touch the wires or the vehicle.
• Outage updates are available here.