Day 3: No Power For Thousands In Hopatcong, Sparta After Storm

SUSSEX COUNTY, NJ - There are less road closures and fewer trees are spanning thoroughfares but the darkened homes and the hum of portable generators still remain as more than 400K remain powerless Thursday in the wake of Tropical Storm Isaias.

The storm Tuesday brought strong winds and heavy rains buffeting the area that closed roads, felled trees, flooded roads and robbed over 123,000 homes of power in Morris County.

According to JCP&L, Hopatcong still has 4,715 people in the dark while Sparta has 2,582 residents without power.

"We currently expect that this will be a multi-day restoration effort," said Cliff Cole, a Jersey Central Power & Light spokesman. The utility supplies electricity to a large part of northern and central New Jersey. "As the weather calms down, crews will continue to assess damage in order to provide estimated restoration times."

Global Restoration Time

Jersey Central Power & Light, which provides electricity to most of central and northern New Jersey, has established a Global Estimated Time of Restoration of 11:30 p.m., Tuesday.

"This means 95 percent of the customers currently out of power will have their power restored by that time," officials said.

When line crews are assigned to specific outage orders a unique User Estimated Time of Restoration will be assigned to that order. As additional utility resources are brought in, the ETRs could be adjusted.

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