Full power: Close in Pa., not N.J.

The outage totals were down into the thousands this morning in Pennsylvania, but were still in the hundreds of thousands in New Jersey, which is bracing for another powerful storm.

A nor'easter forming off Georgia today could bring 60 m.p.h. gusts and cause moderate coastal flooding as it heads northward close to shore Wednesday into Thursday.

The Philadelphia area could even get some snow, as the nor'easter interacts with a mass of cold air.

Peco, just in time, hopes to have all of its customers restored today.

"We're all working hard to get it back on," said spokeswoman Karen Muldoon Geus. "Hopefully, today this will be it."

This morning, Peco's total was down to 2,000 homes and businesses still off the grid in Southeastern Pennsylvania, with about 1,000 in Bucks County, 500 in Montgomery County, and only scattered outages in Philadelphia, and Delaware and Chester Counties.

The utility has now restored power to more than 99.7 percent of the record 850,000 knocked off-line by superstorm Sandy, which swept through New Jersey and Pennsylvania a week ago.

By Wednesday morning, the state might be almost completely restored.

First Energy was down to 6,800 out across the state this morning, predominantly customers of Met Ed in the eastern counties of Bucks (1,700), Monroe (1,700) and Northampton (2,800).

PPL Electric, which serves 29 mostly eastern counties, was down to just 667 statewide, including 437 in Bucks.

In all, hard-hit Bucks had more than 3,000 homes and businesses still in the dark this morning - with more than 200,000 restored.

Although Atlantic City Electric had only about 240 customers out this morning across the bulk of South Jersey - from Cape May to Gloucester County to Long Beach Island - the state's two biggest utilities were still battling enormous challenges.

PSE&G, which serves a swath from Gloucester County to the New York State line, had 310,000 outages this morning, including about 1,500 in Burlington County and another 800 in Camden County.

Make that about 2,700 for Burlington County, counting a portion served by Jersey Central Power & Light.

Statewide, JCP&L had 256,000 out, mostly in Monmouth and Morris Counties. Hard-hit coastal county Ocean was down to 38,000.

Together, the two utilities had nearly 2.7 million outages because of the storm.

Those numbers reflect how damaging Sandy was in New Jersey - and how vulnerable coastal communities are likely to be to the new storm.

That could mean more outages, according to the weather service's high wind warning:

"Structures and trees weakened by the storm last week may be further damaged by another round of high winds. This can also result in renewed power outages, particularly in areas where the electrical system remains in a weakened state. Debris from last week's storm could become a hazard during this new storm, especially if it is light enough to become airborne."