Storm Leaves Thousands Without Power On Jersey Shore

Thousands of Central Jersey residents were without power Friday afternoon after thunderstorms that moved through the area.

Cecilia Levine

08/28/2020 7:21 p.m.

Nearly all of the 20,000 JCP&L Ocean County outages had been restored as of Saturday morning, while 1,826 in Monmouth were in the dark, the outage map shows.

A JCP&L spokesperson said the outages were caused by lightning strikes.

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