Thousands of homes and businesses remained without power early Thursday after counties across New Jersey awoke to damage from strong winds that snapped utility poles and trees overnight. Data from NJ.com’s Power Outage Tracker — which monitors outage numbers from utility companies across the region — showed more than 19,000 homes and businesses without power as of 6:30 a.m. JCP&L, which services central and southern New Jersey, reported the most outages Thursday morning with 16,210 customers without power. PSE&G reported 3,187 of its customers were without power in the morning. The numbers wer…