More than 30,000 southern New Jersey residents are living without power as Wednesday’s nor’easter continues to wreak havoc.
Atlantic City Electric (ACE) outage map shows that 32,380 of its customers are without power as of 9:10 p.m. Most of the darkened homes are located in Cumberland, Salem and Gloucester County where there are more trees, according to ACE spokesperson Frank Tedesco.
“Winter Storm Toby’s heavy, wet snow, ice, and high winds has toppled trees and brought down tree limbs, downing utility poles, power lines and damaged electric equipment, causing electric service interruptions for customers,” Tedesco said. “Atlantic City Electric’s entire Emergency Response Organization has been mobilized with all company resources dedicated to restoring service to customers as safely and efficiently as possible.”
Tedesco said 180 internal linemen, 131 overhead line contractors and 233 tree crew personnel are working to fix the various issues, but that there is no timetable for when power will be restored.
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