Widespread Power Outages In New Hope Area

Outage estimates across the region have greatly increased since this story was published early Friday afternoon. For the latest outage information, click here.

More than 8,000 Bucks County residents — most of them in the New Hope area — are without power as a nor'easter batters the region with high winds and heavy, wet snow.

Upper Makefield and Buckingham townships have been hit particularly hard, according to information available at 1 p.m.

• In Solebury, 1,068 homes are without power.
• In Upper Makefield, there are 1,703 outages.
• In Buckingham Township, there are 2,347 outages
• New Hope Borough is reporting 67 outages

There are more than 36,000 customers in the Philadelphia region without power.

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The county with the most outages is Chester, which is experiencing more than 15,000. In Montgomery County, more than 10,000 are without power, and in Bucks County there are more than 5,000. Delaware County is reporting about 3,500 outages. Philadelphia has over 800. (These numbers fluctuate rapidly based on the latest information available. Click here to view the outage map.)

The outages quickly escalated as the storm moved through. At 11 a.m., there were less than 4,500 outages across the area serviced by PECO. But 90 minutes later that number increased by more than 33,000.

PHOTO by Kara Seymour