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Utility crews have restored service to nearly all customers who lost electricity when a line of powerful thunderstorms blew through central and southern New Jersey.

JCP+L has announced a number locations in Monmouth, Ocean, Mercer & Middlesex counties where free ice & water is being distributed as crews work to restore power from Saturday night's storms.

We're getting reports of power outages due to the extreme heat in parts of Long Branch and Monmouth Beach. As of 1:45pm Jersey Central Power & Light was reporting around 600 customers without power. You can view the JCP&L Outage Map here for up to the minute information. Che...

Power is being restored to areas of Monmouth County where over 5700 customers were without power at one point on a day with temperatures approaching the 90's.

Power is reportedly out in Bridgewater. A lot of callers to the station are saying they saw a bright light in the sky right before the power outage. Assumptions right now are that a transformer could have exploded in the area. Check out this picture, uploaded to Twitter, from someone who was there when the sky lit up...

There's no definitive word yet whether Jersey's utilities will request a rate increase from the State Board of Public Utilities - to cover power restoration costs after hurricane Irene, and the freak October snow storm a couple of weeks ago that left many Garden state residents without electricity for days.

The Jersey utility companies, even including the currently infamous JCP&L, say that all power is restored.  Hallelujah!  Interesting catch 22:

Thousands of New Jerseyans are at or near a boiling point as they wait impatiently for their power to be restored after last weekend's freak blizzard. Governor Chris Christie has a message for Garden State residents who have or are thinking of doing something stupid.