Update: West Seattle power outages after first blustery blast

Thanks to Cluny and Debbie for e-mailing to report a power outage caused by a fallen tree. Seattle City Light‘s status map says it’s affecting at least 27 customers (homes/businesses), in stretches both west and east of the Delridge/Orchard intersection, where Debbie says the signal’s out as a result, and to the south. City Light lists the estimated time of power restoration as 11 am. (Though the wind’s relatively calm at the moment, we have multiple reports of blustery conditions in the 4 am hour, when the tree came down, so this may be the first effect of the storm systems that brought the alert noted here last night.)

9:24 AM UPDATE: Just back from checking it out – adding photos. The entire 4-way intersection of Delridge/Orchard is marked with signs since the signal is out; Orchard/Dumar is closed east of Delridge, since that’s where the City Light crews are working.

The National Weather Service says more blusteriness is on the way.

11:18 AM UPDATE: The City Light map shows two more small outages – one that had been mentioned in comments on our earlier weather report, in the Admiral area, cause “unknown,” and the other further south on Delridge, at Kenyon, listed as “bird/animal”-related.

11:53 AM UPDATE: Just checked the Delridge/Orchard intersection – the traffic signal’s working again, but the road east of Delridge is still closed. Commenter from Admiral says that outage is over too.

EVENING NOTE: The road to the east is fully open again, too.

6 Replies to "Update: West Seattle power outages after first blustery blast"

  • Bryan Hollister September 25, 2011 (9:44 am)

    There was a loud boom in the area, near 4:00 a.m. this morning. Did this power outage involve a transformer explosion? Soon after the boom, a fire truck from the 16th and Holden station went down the Austin St./Orchard arterial and stopped somewhere near this intersection.

  • sam-c September 25, 2011 (9:58 am)

    crazy detours trying to get out of Puget ridge this morning, take the northern route if you leave the neighborhood- so many streets blocked as mentioned here, austin and the most potholed piece of road in Seattle (aka Orchard). glad it was not a terrible accident to cause the outage.

  • coffee September 25, 2011 (10:12 am)

    4:08 AM is when the big gust hit our house in arbor heights.

  • Derek September 25, 2011 (10:13 am)

    We really need to do something about all of these trees. They’re a safety hazard and they’re everywhere. Someone should think of the children.

  • JanS September 25, 2011 (11:08 am)

    and welcome to fall…what a difference a day makes, huh…

  • Jiggers September 25, 2011 (1:12 pm)

    At 10 pm it felt like nothing was going to happen, then boy it hit fast after midnight. Winds are pretty good right now.

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