WEST SEATTLE POWER OUTAGE: 49 customers in Gatewood

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8:36 AM: Thanks for the tips – first we got a text about a “boom” in Gatewood, then Matt e-mailed about a transformer/fuse blowing near California/Myrtle, and now the Seattle City Light outage map shows 49 customers out in that area. Estimated restoration is after noon, but remember that those are just “guesstimates” and it could be sooner (as was the case with the most recent West Seattle outage of note) or later.

1:26 PM: The original estimated restoration time has now come and gone, and there’s a new one, 3:43 pm. The map also now attributes the outage to “tree.”

2:28 PM: And the outage has ended, sometime in the past hour, after 5+ hours.

Deb November 26, 2017 (12:28 pm)

Heard the boom over in Seaview (SW Graham at 46th). Sorry to learn of your loss of power Gatewood.

Mike November 26, 2017 (6:45 pm)

Seems to be a big jump in power outages without any weather related causes lately. Our ancient grid over burdened by the massive influx in new development and electronics being used?

WSB November 26, 2017 (6:49 pm)

This one was attributed to a tree, which would be likely weather-related; pounding rain all night, some wind too, and a special weather statement warning of increased slide risk because the ground is so saturated (same thing that can take out a tree). And that particular area has been outage-prone for at least as long as we’ve been tracking outages (back to the mid-00s).

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