Nearly 6,000 customers lost electricity on Monday, Dec. 23, and the vast majority were in Manchester Township. The outages began around 8 a.m. as daytime temperatures hovered at 23 degrees and plunged to the low teens overnight.
Manchester police discussed the response to the massive power outage in a news release on Tuesday, Dec. 24. Officers estimated about 5,200 Whiting residents had no electricity at the height of the outage.
The Jersey Central Power & Light website showed just six customers in Manchester without power as of 12:16 p.m. and a 12:31 p.m. update showed all customers had power in the township. However, at least 500 didn’t get their electricity turned back on until earlier that morning…