Duquesne Light and West Penn Power are continuing to make progress restoring power to several thousand customers throughout the region after heavy storms and high winds knocked out power to more than 40,000 on Thursday evening.
Duquesne Light reported about 1,900 customers still without power as of 10 p.m. Friday evening, down from 6,800 earlier in the day.
The company reported that it hasn’t experienced any major setbacks after another line of storms came through the region this afternoon, allowing restorations to continue.
“With more severe weather expected this evening and into tomorrow, DLC has increased staffing to prepare for any additional outages,” company officials said in a statement.
West Penn Power outage maps continue to show small pockets of outages across its service area, with several hundred customers still affected in the Butler, New Kensington, Arnold and Lower Burrell areas. About 300 customers in Westmoreland County and 175 in Allegheny are still without power as of 11:59 p.m. Friday night.
Over the course of the past 12 hours, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI recorded unofficial rain totals including nearly 3 inches in Apollo, nearly 2.5 in McKees Rocks, and just over an inch in Greensburg.
A National Weather Service flash flood warning expired at 6:45 p.m. for central Allegheny, central Westmoreland, and southern Indiana County.
Isolated rain showers are expected across the region through the early afternoon on Saturday, part of the local effects of Hurricane Laura, but the most severe rain is expected to fall south of Pennsylvania, according to WPXI Meteorologist Stephen Cropper.
“Overall, the back half of (Saturday) is going to be a real breather for us, a sigh of relief after the storms,” Cropper said.
