Lightning strikes, power outages in Pa., N.J.
HOPEWELL, N.J. (WPVI) -- Lightning strikes, high winds and heavy rain caused some damage as they moved through the region early Thursday morning.
It was a frustrating day for about 1,000 JCPL customers in the Titusville section of Hopewell Township, Mercer County.
Their power went out after a lighting strike damaged a transmission line that fed a substation. Many homes and businesses were left in the dark.
About 12 hours after the storm, electricity was restored.
In West Deptford, N.J., officials say lightning struck the chimney of a home on Lynn Drive, sparking a fire in the attic.
Firefighters were called to the home at 3:00 a.m. Thursday as thunderstorms were rolling through.
They got the fire under control with half an hour. No one in the home was hurt.
Lightning also may have sparked an attic fire in Bucks County.
That blaze broke out at 3:30 a.m. as thunderstorms rolled over the 200 block of Summer Ridge Circle in Warrington Township.
Firefighters made quick work of the flames here as well. No one was injured.
Investigators were still working to determine if a lightning strike touched off the fire.
The lightning came with powerful storms that brought heavy rain and minor flooding across the area in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
The Action Cam caught the scene in Wilmington along MLK Boulevard at French Street.
And Action News was in Prospect Park, Delaware County, where flooding from heavy rain caused a taxicab to stall out.
