NEW JERSEY — More than 160,000 Jersey Central Power & Light customers remained without electricity Saturday morning after severe thunderstorms swept through the utility’s service area Friday, bringing damaging winds that toppled trees, downed power lines and caused widespread outages.
According to JCP&L, approximately 200,000 customers initially lost power as the storms moved across New Jersey.
In northwestern New Jersey, outages remained widespread Saturday morning, with more than 52,000 customers without power in Morris County, more than 14,000 in Sussex County, more than 9,500 in Hunterdon County and more than 4,500 in Warren County…