1,300 Still Powerless After Sunday Storm

Update: As of 6:10 p.m.

• Over 1,300 are still without power in Morris County after the 6:00 p.m. JCP&L deadline for restoration.
  
• JCP&L issued this statement: JCP&L continues to restore service in your area as a result of last evening's severe thunderstorm. We are working as quickly as possible to restore service to all customers. If you should need assistance because of your medical condition during the outage, you should contact your local emergency management office. If you are a well water customer that is currently out of service, Ice and water are available at the following locations: Shop Rite of Rockaway 437 Rt 46 Rockaway and Shop Rite of Wharton 314 Rt 15 Wharton.

After a relatively quiet winter, mother nature flexed her muscles Sunday night with a late afternoon thunderstorm that produced heavy rains, high winds, strikes of lightning, hail and flash flooding that downed power lines and trees and closed roads. 

The areas hardest hit in Morris County were Jefferson, Rockaway, Randolph and Dover with power outtages in the thousands and over a dozen road closures reported.

While Chester weathered the storm with no reported outtages according to JCP&L and officials there said there were no major storm related road closures, Mendham did not escape unscathed.

JCP&L reported over 200 hundred people lost power in the Mendham Township and over 100 in the Borough as the storm moved through the area. Trees crossed lines on Woodland Avenue and on Old Brookside Road where cones and caution tape were all that kept travelers from the dangling lines.

Along Jockey Hollow there were signs of flash flooding as debris, mud and gravel cut swaths through the pavement in areas of drainage. Police closed off Route 24 between Whitehead Road and Tingley Road for what officials called "storm related cleanup."

As the storm cleanup continues, police and fire officials said residents should be prepared for detours and road closures to crop up as they travel. Residents are being advised to plan extra time when traveling.

As of 11 p.m. Sunday there were still 200 people without power in and , and spot road closures and repair work on roads in and out of town was ongoing.

While the number has streadily ticked downward, there are still almost 2,000 customers with no service heading into Monday night.

We will update as we receive more information and encourage readers to post their own storm experience, including photos and road closures they encounter, in the comments below.