For the most, part the lights are on, the river is down and the fallen trees are gone. That sums up cleanup and repair efforts that followed high winds and rain that hit the area beginning Wednesday evening through most of Thursday.
Allegheny Power spokesman Doug Colafella said that overall, power has been restored to about 85 percent of customers in the company's service areas that were affected. He added that as of noon yesterday, about 253 customers were still without power in Armstrong County. Colafella said about 1,100 Armstrong County customers lost power during the storm.
"We expect to have most of the remaining customers back on line in the next 24 hours. However, there is a possibility that a few customers in isolated areas will not be connected until Sunday.
"We still have 53 damage spots that crews are working to get repaired. In most of these locations only about four or five customers may be affected, so it could be a slow process. We're working as quickly as possible to restore all power."
Christina O'Donnell of the Central Electric Cooperative, Parker, said the company's line crews made ...excellent progress." Yesterday, O'Donnell said about 3,500 cooperative customers were without power. Friday morning she said power had been restored to all Central Electric's areas which included 3,000 customers.
She said the the cooperative has embarked on an "aggressive tree-trimming program" to lessen the chance of damage to power lines from falling trees.
Ken Campbell, assistant manager of Armstrong County PennDOT District 10, said crews had about 60 or more trees that had fallen on state roadways cleaned up by noon. He said crews worked throughout the night and most of the morning to remove all trees from roadways.
Vince Cappo of Armstrong County EMA had more good news. Cappo said the river level at Kittanning as of 8:30 a.m. Friday was 16.9 feet, well under the 21-foot flood stage. He said the maximum level in the past few days was 17.49 feet, recorded at 12:45 p.m. Thursday.
However, Cappo said that about four homes and several camps in the Creek Valley area of Bethel Township had basement flooding due to the creek backing up because of the high river level Thursday. Cappo added that the majority of river ice in the Allegheny has been pushed down from East Brady past Kittanning.
The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh said to expect daytime temperatures in the mid to upper 30s and night temperatures in the low 20s during the weekend with no significant snowfall, rain or high winds.
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