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Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Hundreds without power as storm cleanup continues in Cambria, Somerset counties
Residents across Cambria and Somerset counties awoke Monday to downed trees and power outages after Sunday's severe thunderstorms kicked up 60 mph wind gusts, authorities said. '(Sunday) was a wild day,' AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tom Kines said Monday. The storm hit Cambria County with its strongest winds between 1 and 3 p.m. The John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Richland Township reported a peak gust of 63 mph, Kines said. St. Francis University in Loretto canceled classes Monday due to no electricity. Winds ripped away a metal roof addition off St. Stephen's Living Center on Chestnut Street in Nanty Glo, tossing portions onto the road and into nearby yards. 'It's still on the street waiting for (Penelec) to clean up the wires,' Nanty Glo Volunteer fire Chief Joe LaMantia Jr. said Monday. Work crews Monday began the task of cutting up and carting away trees that toppled onto a house in the 300 block of Luray Avenue in Richland Township. 'We had a lot of calls in Richland and Geistown in the afternoon,' Richland Township volunteer fire Capt. Chris Meyers said Monday. Firefighters responded to 14 calls between 1:30 and 3:15 p.m., he said. Power outages hit both Cambria and Somerset counties. The northernmost townships in Cambria County were still in the dark Monday afternoon. Penelec online outage map showed all 135 customers in Chest Township were without power. More than 700 customers in Reade Township and 964 of 970 customers in White Township were without electricity. Power to all three townships is expected to be restored by 11 a.m. Wednesday, the outage map shows. Somerset County 911 reported multiple storm-related incidents. Michael Horvath, fire chief for the Northern Regional Fire Department, called Sunday a busy day. The fire department serves Scalp Level in Cambria County and five municipalities – Ogle Township, Paint Township and Paint Borough, Benson Borough and parts of Quemahoning Township – in Somerset County. 'Mainly, we ran about 10 calls from trees down to cable lines and power lines down throughout the area,' Horvath said. No injuries or structural damage was reported, he said. Horvath addressed Facebook chatter of some residents reporting a sonic boom supposedly caused by a meteor strike. There was no explosion or meteor strike, he said.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Johnstown airport approves study to bring more passengers; add third location
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — The John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport is thinking about expanding options to bring in more business to their terminal. During an airport authority board meeting, the group unanimously approved a $7,500 demand-and-leakage study to be conducted by airline consultant ArkStar. 'What that does is that it looks at air traffic demand and where our passengers are flying to and where the demand is,' Johnstown Airport Manager Cory Cree said. 'It also looks at passengers in our area, where they're traveling to other airports, where they're looking to and where they're flying to.' 'Getting Ahead' program starts new cohort to beat poverty in the community Last year, 17,000 flyers from the area departed from the airport. The current terminal has United Airlines planes set to take off from Johnstown to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. Having the study done can create more opportunities to fly different airlines and potentially add a third location to depart for. 'It could indicate that direct flight, either with an ultra low cost here or charter aircraft, to a vacation destination such as Florida, Georgia or others,' Cree added. 'It could definitely be warranted.' The added traffic to the airport can bring more visitors, which will increase parking space. The study can also create a 42 spot parking lot adjacent to the terminal on Airport Rd. and an additional long term parking lot that can hold 75 cars. 'It will help the airport continue to grow with air carriers as well as Balance Restaurant that just recently opened up here at the terminal building,' Cree added. 'We need to be able to support our tenants and our, clients and our passengers.' Adding more airlines can cause a rift between another airline and an airport. With SkyWest's contract ending this October, the study can be used as an aid to keep them around. Cree sees the idea of adding more airlines while retaining those that are currently there as a possibility. 'We've seen the success that they're having, and we think that by doing updating the study will help us both communicate and work with our current air carrier as well as to meet with and to attract other carriers, such as ultra low-cost carriers and or, charter services,' Cree said. The board expects the study to be completed by March. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
