Comments on: Gatewood power outage: City Light says they’re working on it

By: WSB

WSB — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:02:40 +0000

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

By: chinook

chinook — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:46:12 +0000

was there ever any official word on what caused the outage? It was a chilly, dark morning.

By: add

add — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:11:43 +0000

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.

By: Ttshutterbug

Ttshutterbug — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:11:17 +0000

No power since 7:03am. No update on outage hotline. Any update??

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:40:48 +0000

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

By: Mags

Mags — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:52:35 +0000

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.

By: wseye

wseye — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:40:48 +0000

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.