Winds Bring Downed Trees And Power Outages

March 4, 2023 3:31 am

Winds overnight Friday and into Saturday morning, some with gusts near 50 mph, brought down some trees and blew around debris, including onto roadways.  As of 8am, West Penn Power was showing just about 2100 customers in Washington County were without power Saturday morning, but by 11am, that total was down to 65, with those expected to be restored by noon.   The bulk of those outages were in the City of Washington, and Hanover, Somerset and North Franklin Townships.  Fayette County, however, had over 20,000 without power, and Westmoreland County had over 9,000 in the dark Saturday morning.  Both U.S. Routes 119 and 30 were closed in both directions at points because of downed trees and wires.