West Seattle outage updates: Monday’s electricity, today’s cable

FIRST UPDATE: We promised to check on the cause of the outage that left an estimated 4,000-plus south West Seattle homes and businesses without power for more than an hour, right about this time yesterday. Just heard back from Scott Thomsen at Seattle City Light; he says it’s listed as an underground cable failure – those happen from time to time for a variety of reasons, anything from age to damage caused by weather conditions in earlier months and years. SECOND UPDATE: We checked on the Arbor Heights/Fauntleroy Comcast outage reported by Hopey this morning in comments on this post; Comcast’s Shauna Causey tells WSB that two technicians are in the area right now and if it’s not fixed yet, it should be shortly.

2 Replies to "West Seattle outage updates: Monday's electricity, today's cable"

  • RobertSeattle October 7, 2008 (1:15 pm)

    I’ll trade my ugly above ground power lines for underground lines anytime Mr. Mayor! :-)

  • Diane October 7, 2008 (6:49 pm)

    the power has been out for hours, since noon, in neighborhood south of Fauntleroy Ferry
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    city light crews told me they turned power off to search for source of the 1 hr outage Monday

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