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Rain pounded the Philadelphia region as storms came through with a powerful force Tuesday, bringing down trees, flooding major waterways and knocking out power to about 3,000 homes in Montgomery County.

Rain pounded the Philadelphia region as storms came through with a powerful force Tuesday, bringing down trees, flooding major waterways and knocking out power to about 3,000 homes in Montgomery County.

Norristown is coordinating with PECO to clear homeless encampments from the company’s property. Legal advocates are concerned Norristown could sweep the entire township.

Amid a rise in white nationalist plans to attack energy systems, Philly’s electric utility says it’s working to prevent similar threats.

Pottstown residents have smelled gas in the air in recent days about a block from the piles of rubble that remain near Hale Street and Butler Avenue from an unexplained May 26 home explosion that killed five people.

Nearly four months after a home explosion killed five people in Pottstown, neighbors, who reported gas odors for years, are troubled by the lack of an explanation - and the lack of action before the blast.

Energy costs for electric customers are going up by as much as 50% across Pennsylvania next week, the latest manifestation of across-the-board energy price increases impacting gasoline, heating oil, propane, and natural gas.

Energy costs for electric customers are going up by as much as 50% across Pennsylvania next week, as across-the-board energy price increases continue.