The majority of the outages were reported by JCP&L in Monmouth County. As of 10:30 a.m., 8,197 people were in the dark, the company said.
Most of those customers were in Atlantic Highlands (1,143), Manalapan (553) and Marlboro (1,507).
There were 770 JCP&L customers in Middlesex County were without power while 333 PSE&G customers were also without power in the same area.
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