>Storm Causes Damage, Power Outages
(Reading, PA) -- Thousands of Berks County residents lost power during the storms last night. According to Met-Ed, about six-thousand were without electricity at the peak of the outages, with the number dropping to around three-thousand shortly after midnight. The severe weather also caused damage in the area, including a downed pole on Exeter Street in Reading. The storms also reportedly caused a tree to fall on Centre Avenue near Riverside Elementary School.