Power To Be Restored Thursday Night, Roads Still Closed In Morris

MORRIS COUNTY — Tuesday night's storm knocked down trees and power lines across the county, leaving a trail of road closures and power outages on Wednesday.

14,707 JCP&L customers also remain without power as of Wednesday afternoon. Power is expected to be restored to some customers by 11:30 p.m. on Thursday night, with those experiencing more severe damage seeing it return on Friday, JCP&L said.

"The 70+ mph winds resulted in widespread tree damage to our system, including broken poles and downed wires that will need to be replaced. There are also hundreds of single outages that will require crews to travel to each individual location to make repairs," JCP&L said on Facebook (see current town-by-town outages below).

Multiple highways in the county are totally closed due to fallen trees or wires as of 1:17 p.m., the NJ DOT said:

• As of 11:01am, there's a Downed pole and a Downed tree and Downed wires on NJ 53 in both directions between NJ 10 in Morris Plains and Park Rd in Parsippany-Troy Hills Twp. All lanes closed and detoured.
• As of 11:05am, there are Downed wires on US 46 westbound area of CR 634/main St in Mine Hill Twp. Right lane closed for repairs.
• As of 6:46am, there's a Downed pole and Downed wires on S Jefferson Road at NJ 10 East in Hanover Twp. All lanes closed and detoured until further notice.

Local towns and police departments have also been providing road closure updates:

Montville: Several roads have areas that are blocked to include the following: Barney Road, Bloomfield Ave. into Fairfield, Windsor Drive, Pine Brook Road by Stephen Drive, Fawn Drive near Sunset Court, Route 202 near Montville Ave., and Woodmont Road near Dogwood Circle.

Parsippany: Route 53/Tabor Road is closed between Route 10 and Park Road due to multiple utility poles down, along with wires and trees. Knoll Road between Katherine Drive and Mara Road. South Roosevelt between Manchester Street and Lake Shore Drive. Lake Shore Drive and Vail Road. Approximately a dozen lesser travelled roads are also closed. Please do not drive over downed utility lines or large tree branches. Crews are actively working to clear the major roadways along with side streets.

Jefferson: Due to road closures, some bus routes have changed for today. Please check the Transportation Page of the district website to see if your route is affected.

Here are town-by-town totals of power outages as of 1:19 p.m. (the number on the left is number of homes without power, and the number on the right is total homes serviced by JCP&L):

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