Updates: West Seattle power outage

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ORIGINAL 3:16 PM REPORT: It’s not on the City Light hotline, but there’s an outage in parts of eastern West Seattle. We’re driving 35th, and lights are out north and south of Morgan, though Morgan itself is on. 3:26 PM: We are on Delridge, and lights are out Juneau to Trenton. 3:42 PM: Beware while driving – we saw a near-crash at Delridge/Orchard when someone didn’t stop. 3:53 PM: Some commenters say they are back on. City Light media just called us back, saying 6559 customers are/were affected, and tree trouble is blamed.

8:46 PM POSTSCRIPT: Just added a photo we took while stopped at Orchard/Delridge, covering the outage. City Light has a brief item on its Power Lines site, confirming the outage lasted about an hour, blaming it on a tree, and upping the total number of homes/businesses (“customers”) affected to almost 7,000. Thanks to everyone who tipped us off about this, and everyone who added info here via comments; first note was from Al at 30th/Thistle – many followed, via e-mail, text, Twitter and Facebook – we’re here for breaking news 24/7; all the ways to reach WSB are listed here.

YYinWestwood May 9, 2010 (3:22 pm)

I called Seattle Lights and they have about 1000 customers out due to tree fire. We’Lre at Thistle and 30th.

WSB May 9, 2010 (3:31 pm)

From what we are seeing driving around, sure looks bigger than that!

Dave May 9, 2010 (3:22 pm)

Power is out in Highland Park as well.

Scott May 9, 2010 (3:23 pm)

Power out around Sealth HS, as well.

Al May 9, 2010 (3:26 pm)

Westwood neighborhood (SW Thistle at least) is within the outage, too.

jhoff May 9, 2010 (3:29 pm)

Out in Delridge too. Can’t get thru to the outage hotline :(

Catharine Lutes May 9, 2010 (3:30 pm)

I just got home at 3 pm to find my house without power. I am on 31st between Holden and Webster. I did call the hotline to report it.

nic May 9, 2010 (3:30 pm)

37th and Graham is out.

kwp May 9, 2010 (3:33 pm)

Still out on 35th on the West side of the street.

soosan May 9, 2010 (3:33 pm)

Lights flickered a bunch on Genesee Hill, but so far the power has stayed on.

jhoff May 9, 2010 (3:34 pm)

YYIN – what # did u get thru on?

Robin May 9, 2010 (3:34 pm)

We’re out in South Park too.

sam May 9, 2010 (3:35 pm)

WSB/ YYinWestwood- maybe that is what happens when you don’t turn in your census forms.

kristin May 9, 2010 (3:39 pm)

31st and elmgrove is out but my battery operated radio is not. Mariners up 8-1.

TJ Haney May 9, 2010 (3:41 pm)

Power is out on trenton and 24th as well… still not on!

Elikapeka May 9, 2010 (3:41 pm)

I called the outage hotline, and it said there were no reports of any outages. So per the instructions, I key in our phone number to report the outage. Then the pleasant automated voice tells me my report must be handled by a customer service rep – please hold. Then the pleasant automated voice tells me they are closed, please call back during normal business hours. WTH?????

Guidosmom May 9, 2010 (3:43 pm)

Any ideas when it will be back on? We are without power on 34th and juneau.

jhoff May 9, 2010 (3:45 pm)

I got the same unhelpful sequence from the hotline. And the emergency number is busy :(

nic May 9, 2010 (3:46 pm)

Power just kicked back in

arring-gw May 9, 2010 (3:47 pm)

our power is back now, webster & 35th

Scott May 9, 2010 (3:48 pm)

We’re back up – 27th and Elmgrove

jhoff May 9, 2010 (3:49 pm)

Power back on in Delridge…

Tim May 9, 2010 (3:49 pm)

Heh, everyone, including my wife and I are doing yard work.

Tim May 9, 2010 (3:50 pm)

Yup, just back on here. Does that mean I get to hop back on the couch??

jhoff May 9, 2010 (3:53 pm)

yup :) TV should be working again :)

jhoff May 9, 2010 (3:54 pm)

Well I’m annoyed that I couldn’t get any information from the city but happy the power came back on quickly :) And glad I could see the WSB on my BB so I could know what was going on…

skylark May 9, 2010 (4:46 pm)

We had some weird flickering at 3:30 but we’ve stayed on here at Skylark on Delridge…good thing since we have two benefit shows!

Sarah Antonelli May 9, 2010 (8:47 pm)

WOW! I love this BLOG! MY favorite ever!

Tiffany Kosa May 9, 2010 (10:19 pm)

We were sorta of freaked out when we got home at 10PM and all our clocks were flickering and our computers were restarted. Thanks to West Seattle Blog, not so freaked out anymore.

CJP May 10, 2010 (11:57 am)

did power just go out again in HP?

The associate May 10, 2010 (12:03 pm)

Brief poweroutage just happened. 20 seconds or so. Location: homedepot

Erech O! May 10, 2010 (6:07 pm)

Brief power flickers keep happening lately, aside from that larger outage yesterday. My power has dipped out from anywhere to a few minutes to less like 4 times in the last week, and again at some point today. What’s going on City Light??

WSB May 10, 2010 (6:20 pm)

I heard, but have not verified, there was scanner talk of a transformer blowing in the Delridge/Orchard vicinity when one burst of those flickers was reported this afternoon.