Got a note about an outage in Gatewood that’s been under way since about 8 this morning. Just checked with Seattle City Light‘s on-call media rep – no estimate yet when it’ll be fixed; they say it’s affecting about 53 customers, in the northern Gatewood Hill residential area east of the Morgan Junction business area so far as we can tell from the boundaries.
Note to Mayor McGinn: Please fix our ancient electrical system in West Seattle. I’m starting to feel that we live in a third world country with all of the power outages we experience. Hopefully we won’t get another discharge of raw sewage into Puget Sound as a result of this one.
I was just thinking yesterday I would not mind the rate increase if the Gatewood electrical system would be upgraded. I moved to Gatewood from near Alaska Junction and cannot believe how many more outages there are in Gatewood.
The good news is I see at least three Seattle City Light trucks on the scene at a pole on 39th. They sure took a while to get there, though. Was at least 11:30 before they all showed up
No power since 7:03am. No update on outage hotline. Any update??
Power back on as of about 15 minutes ago. That was a long outage – I heard a bang and then lights out at a few minutes before 7am.
was there ever any official word on what caused the outage? It was a chilly, dark morning.
It was not a large enough outage for an official news release – I had to page an SCL on-call media person to find out how many customers were involved – so there’s no official followup report, but I will do my best to find out on Monday what the cause was – TR
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