Several thousand households without power following line of thunderstorms that passed through region

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2012/07/several_thousand_households_wi.html FROM THE EXPRESS TIMES More than 5,000 customers of PPL Electric Utilities in Lehigh and Northampton counties were without electricity as of 11 o'clock, according to an outage report on the company website. One resident indicated that the power loss occurred shortly before 8 and the household was still dark three hours later.