Lights Slowly Coming Back On In Washington County

February 7, 2022 4:13 am

Work continues to restore power across Washington County. West Penn Power says there are now only a little under 500 customers without power as of Monday afternoon. The outages are scattered throughout the county. Many customers have been without power since Thursday night. Crews have been working around the clock to try and restore power following a massive ice, sleet and snow storm. At one point, there were more than 21-thousand West Penn Power customers without service. The result of heavy ice bringing down trees and power lines. According to their website, the company hopes to have the majority of customers back on line by 10 or 11 p.m Tuesday night.  Several area schools are still being impacted by the storm.  The McGuffey School District is closed.  The Fort Cherry School District had remote learning because of secondary road conditions and the Avella School District posted on their social media accounts that they switched from a two-hour delay to a flexible instruction day Monday because of water and heat issues at district building and the condition of some roads.  Meanwhile, downed utilities are causing a couple of road closures in the county.  PennDOT says West Finley Road (Route 3037) in West Finley Township between Beham Ridge Road and Majorsville Road is closed, as is Zion Road (Route 3022) between South Bridge Road in Morris Township and Craft Creek Road in East Finley Township.