There's nothing fake about the news surrounding this storm

Yes, there are still pockets of Delaware County in the dark.

Three days after a ferocious Nor'easter slammed into the area, with rain, wind-driven snow and gusts up to 60 mph, trees came down all across the county.

Particularly hard hit were sections of Havertown, as well as Nether Providence, Springfield and Swarthmore.

As of late Monday afternoon, PECO was still working furiously to restore power to 42,000 customers, 15,000 of them in Delaware County.

At its peak, more than 630,000 of PECO's 1.6 million customers were in the dark.

One of the many oddities I have encountered in traveling the county.

I told yesterday of my near-miss with a falling tree just a few blocks from our office on South Chester Road, just after you cross the Blue Route overpass.

I thought it a little odd when I drove in Monday morning to discover it was still there.

And even odder that it had not been removed this morning. There are stop signs in place, and southbound traffic is still weaving around the tree.

At least some people have kept their sense of humor.

Photographer Pete Bannan caught this shot of a prankster adding his own message to a truss blocking Gulph Creek Road in Radnor Township.

Yep, there has been nothing fake about this weather.