More than 60,000 people in the region remained without electric service this morning, more than two days after Hurricane Ike's winds blew through the area.

About 14,500 Duquesne Light customers were still without power as of noon.

The areas with the largest concentration of customers without power include Hampton and Ross townships in Allegheny County, and Center and Hopewell Townships in Beaver County.

Spokesman Joseph Vallarian said that Duquesne Light is projecting the following restoration times:

Eastern Allegheny County: Late tomorrow.

North and South Hills: Late Friday.

Western Allegheny County and Beaver County: Late Friday.

All roadways in Beaver and Lawrence counties closed due to downed wires have now been reopened, according to James Struzzi of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Route 4028 Redgate Road in Allegheny County remains closed.

The Associated Press reported that about 23,000 Penn Power customers were still without power today.

Allegheny Power also had about 23,000 people without electricity in southwestern Pennsylvania by this morning and hoped to have all power back on by Friday or Saturday, a spokeswoman said.

In hard-hit Butler County, where an estimate 25,000 had no electricity this morning, a state of emergency has been declared and two shelters were opened in schools yesterday.

At a Red Cross shelter set up at Knoch Middle School in Saxonburg, people trickled in throughout the day yesterday to eat pizza and salad or take showers.

"This doesn't fall into our normal Red Cross response as a disaster, but falls into a community need we could respond to," said Jody Knights, executive director of the Butler County chapter of the American Red Cross.

The Red Cross set up the shelters because it was getting about a dozen calls an hour. Another dozen people stopped at a shelter at Slippery Rock Area High School, in the county's northern end.

"The biggest problem was people who didn't have drinking water," Ms. Knights said, or people needing help with electrically powered medical equipment. In such cases, she said, equipment vendors were contacted.

The American Red Cross set up shelters with showers, including one at South Butler Intermediate School, and to supply drinking water throughout the county.

The Red Cross planned to keep the shelters open until 8 a.m. today, close them for school and reopen at 4 p.m.

The Red Cross this afternoon will distribute bottled drinking water at the Penn Township Volunteer Fire Department at 311 E. Airport Road and the North Washington Fire Hall at 739 Fairview Road. The Oakland Township Volunteer Fire Department at 301 Oneida Valley Road will distribute drinking water 24 hours a day.

The Middlesex Township Volunteer Fire Company on Browns Hill Road has a Water Tank truck available for drinking, washing, etc. You are asked to bring your own containers

The Red Cross recommends any residents needing a hot meal can go to one of these Butler churches this week from 5 to 6 p.m.:

* Wednesday: Saint Andrews United Presbyterian Church at 201 E. Jefferson St.

* Thursday: St. Mark's Lutheran Church at the corner of Jefferson and Washington streets

* Friday: First United Methodist Church at the corner of North and McKean streets

* Saturday: Community Full Gospel Church at 215 W. North St.

In Beaver County, residents without water service may bring containers to the following locations to fill them with water.

* Economy Community Building

2856 Conway Wallrose Road

*Hopewell Township Fire Department #2

Route 151

*Industry Fire Department

1640 Midland Beaver Road

*Raccoon Township Fire Department

4061 Patterson Road

*Rochester Township Fire Department

632 California Avenue

*South Beaver Fire Department

Route 168

*South Beaver Fire Department

Blackhawk Road