More than 18,000 customers remained without power Monday morning as Central Jersey continued recovering from a series of severe storms that swept through the region over the Fourth of July weekend.
The storms also claimed the life of a Scotch Plains man when a tree limb fell on his vehicle Friday evening during the height of the storm.
Jared C. Hirschowitz, 41, died after a tree fell onto the hood of his Kia on Raritan Road near Quimby Lane in Scotch Plains, causing the vehicle to leave the roadway and strike a bush and a tree…