Update: Power restored in Highland Park, White Center

December 8, 2009 at 12:36 am | In Utilities, West Seattle news, West Seattle weather | 10 Comments

12:36 AM: Just received two reports via e-mail and text (thanks!) that there’s a power outage in Highland Park, apparently coinciding with power flickers in other parts of West Seattle, including here at WSB HQ in Upper Fauntleroy. Checking for more info – let us know if it’s affecting you too. One of our HP tipsters, “westseattledood,” says it “looks dark for blocks.” 12:48 AM: Seattle City Light says about 1,900 “customers” – homes/businesses – are out of power in Highland Park and White Center. Sounds like they haven’t traced the cause yet, either, as the recording asks anyone with information on what might have triggered it to stay on the line to talk with a dispatcher. 1 AM UPDATE: SCL projects the outage might last till 4 am but still doesn’t have word of its cause. 2:09 AM UPDATE: We have one report of power coming back on, at 16th/Myrtle. 2:33 AM: City Light has taken the outage info off its hotline – haven’t confirmed yet if that means everybody’s back on or not. 4:35 AM: City Light confirms everyone’s back on (although the time mentioned in their online update doesn’t entirely synch with what people were telling us earlier this morning) and says the outage was caused by a “cable failure.”

10 Comments

  1. Power Flickers here on Harbor Ave SW

    Comment by David Rosen — December 8, 09 12:45 am #

  2. Had two or three “hard flickers” over in the Seaview area. The last one had me thinking it might go out! Long enough to reboot the computer. Sorry for those w/o power on this cold night. Hope SCL can get it back on soon!

    Comment by Bzzzt — December 8, 09 12:58 am #

  3. Still getting some major power flickers here in Seaview.

    Comment by Sarah — December 8, 09 1:15 am #

  4. Another flicker at 1:16… Near Graham and California.

    Comment by Pappy — December 8, 09 1:18 am #

  5. Us too. Hope that doesn’t mean a bunch more people lost power somewhere … will check with City Light again in a bit – TR

    Comment by WSB — December 8, 09 1:19 am #

  6. powers out in Puget Ridge – 18th & Dawson.

    Comment by I'mAwake — December 8, 09 1:41 am #

  7. The text was me. I went to bed right after, though.

    Comment by datamuse — December 8, 09 7:04 am #

  8. Thanks for this update. We went out at quarter to 1. Boys continued their poker game wee into the night by candlelight.
    We figured we blew a breaker with 3 heaters in one room…but the power flickering suggested otherwise. It was eerie seeing just how dark a street can get!
    I definitely appreciated the down comforters last night!

    Comment by Kat — December 8, 09 10:05 am #

  9. Near Riverview we were out from 12:20 until about 2:00. I was going to tweet WSB to tell them but my phone was my alarm clock and it was almost out of juice. Thank goodness it went back on- it was starting to get cold!

    Comment by Catherine — December 8, 09 11:26 am #

  10. Thanks for thinking of us. We are dependent on “phone alarm clock” too and have resorted to keeping the darn thing plugged into its charger whenever we’re not out and about … something I remember vividly from the multi-day outage after Windstorm 2006 … going to the coffee shop not only to plug in the laptop to publish items to the site, but also to charge the phones! – TR

    Comment by WSB — December 8, 09 11:41 am #

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