Thousands of PPL customers were still without power early Wednesday morning as crews continued to respond to Tuesday’s winter storm.

As of 8:30 a.m., 13,290 customers in Schuylkill County still did not have power, according to Tracie Witter, Manager of External Communications, PPL Electric Utilities.

Additionally, Witter said 654 customers were without power in Carbon County.

“Our team has worked through the day yesterday to restore power to 97,463 customers since the start of the storm,” said Witter, who added that as of 8 p.m., Tuesday, there were about 52,639 customers out of power. “Crews and assessors are still uncovering damage, including trees and wires down across the territory. We advise customers to always assume a downed or low-hanging wire is energized and stay away.”

Witter urged customers to call PPL to report these issues at 1-800-342-5775.

“We continued to work through the night last evening to repair damage and restore power,” she said. “There are some warming stations open in Dauphin and Schuylkill counties that we’ve shared at pplelectric.com/storm and through targeted social media posts.”

Witter added “because of the impact and extensive damage, we’ve called in more than 100 additional resources to supplement our efforts. This includes line workers, foresters, damage assessors, electricians and call center staff.”

The region’s second winter storm of the season dropped heavy, wet snow across the PPL Electric Utilities’ service territory Monday night into Tuesday morning.

As of noon Tuesday, there were about 90,000 customers out of power and the company had restored about 53,600 customers since the start of the storm.

“The expected combination of heavy, wet snow had a significant impact in our service territory, resulting in customer outages,” said Christine Martin, president of PPL Electric Utilities. “We have all-hands on deck as we respond to this storm and have brought in additional crews from other regions to assist. In some significantly impacted regions, travel is still difficult. However, PPL Electric will continue to work around the clock until every customer has been restored.”

PPL Electric Utilities secured hundreds of additional line and forestry workers to supplement the thousands of personnel responding to the storm, providing both field-based and back-office emergency response operations across the region. This includes line workers, foresters, damage assessors, electricians and call center staff.

PPL understands that its customers who have lost power are anxious to be restored, and added they continue to assess the damage and have assigned estimated restoration times for areas in our territory. The estimated times will be updated as they work through the restoration effort. Because of the scope of repairs, full restoration could take through Thursday for some customers, although many customers will get power restored sooner.