TRENTON - More than 95,000 homes and businesses in New Jersey are without electricity as Hurricane Sandy pummels the state with rain and strong winds.

Jersey Central Power & Light is reporting 52,151 customers without service. Most are in ocean and Monmouth counties.

Atlantic City Electric has 37,111 outages, centered mainly in Atlantic County.

Public Service Electric & Gas says 6,200 customers are without power.

The utilities say it may take until Wednesday before their crews can make a full assessment of the damage.

Courier-Post Staff