Some West Penn Power customers were still without electricity Monday morning following Friday's winter storm that brought freezing rain, ice and snow to the area.
Mark Durbin, a West Penn Power spokesperson, said as many as 36,000 customers lost power during the storm's peak. As of 11 a.m. Monday, about 1,700 customers were still without, according to the company's website.
Durbin said crews worked 16-hour shifts through the weekend. He believes the vast majority of customers will have power by 11 p.m. Monday.
"It caused quite a bit of damage to our system," he said of Friday's conditions. "There were trees that came down into our equipment, transformers that were broken, wires that came down that need to be addressed. The other issue that we were dealing with is there were very treacherous driving conditions."
The bulk of the outages have been throughout Washington County, which was one of the areas where the storm hit hardest.
Durbin said current outages weren't contained to one area, which is likely an effect of their restoration process.
"There might be a customer that just had a tree that came down on their single wire. Unfortunately, those are the folks that sometimes wait until the end of an outage cycle," he said."
Duquesne Light was not reporting any outages Monday morning.