West Seattle power-outage update: 116 homes/businesses

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8:11 AM: Thanks to the texter who just pointed this out: Seattle City Light‘s outage map shows 121 homes/businesses without power right now in the Seacrest Park vicinity and along Harbor Avenue for a stretch eastward. They’re hoping to have it back by 10:30 am or so, but as always, that’s just a guesstimate. We’re headed that way to check on effects.

8:39 AM: While the outage map shows Seacrest, we checked at Marination – no problem there. Still checking elsewhere. No cause listed yet; we’ve seen at least one City Light crew in the area:

9:01 AM: Moondrop Coffee and Tea across from Seacrest has a note on its door saying it’s closed because of the outage. The City Light map now says “bird/animal” as the cause (and commenter Wes C. Addle backs that up), with an 11:45 am guesstimate for restoration, and a slight downgrade of affected customers to 116.

11:48 AM: The City Light map shows this outage is over.

Wes C. Addle July 31, 2015 (8:53 am)

I believe the Power outage was caused by a crow, per my sources.

WSB July 31, 2015 (9:01 am)

Thanks. The City Light truck was leaving as our intrepid crew pulled up. But the outage map has now been updated to say “bird/animal” as the cause. – TR

Robert July 31, 2015 (9:23 am)

Now if that Coffee Shop had been on solar…

WSB July 31, 2015 (9:36 am)

Then they could be Sundrop instead of Moondrop. Anyway, they’re on the street level of a mixed-use building so that sort of decision is likely out of their hands. But it’s a good thought. Birds likely do better in entanglements with solar-power systems, too…