5K In Montgomery County Without Power Tuesday

By Justin Heinze and Kara Seymour:

Tens of thousands of Pennsylvania residents are still without power after severe thunderstorms and heavy rain ripped through the region Tuesday night.

PECO outage maps report a total of 142,868 customers without power as of Wednesday afternoon. Nearly 5,000 of those customers are in Montgomery County.

There are 4,700 power outages in Lower Merion Township, officials there report.

The worst hit was Delaware County, which had over 100,000 outages on its own by midnight Tuesday. More than 69,500 remain without power as of Wednesday afternoon.

Chester County was the next hardest hit, with 59,167 outages. As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 52,000 Chester County are still without electricity.

Philadelphia (5,767), Montgomery (5,671), and York (2,745) Counties have each recovered well from the storm. Only five customers are without power in Bucks County.

As a calm red sky replaced the turbid storm and cast a crimson pall the region Tuesday night, residents began to survey the damage done.

A tree fell across I-76 near Radnor, shutting down traffic in both lanes for several hours.

In New Jersey, possible tornadoes were caught on camera ripping through the streets.

Downed trees, downed wires, and even minor flooding in some areas were just some of the consequences being dealt with Wednesday morning.

It is not yet known when residents will have power back.