West Seattle power outage: Parts of Arbor Heights, Brace Point

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(Outage zone, screengrabbed from City Light map)
12:29 AM: Thanks to Kevin and Jason for initial tips (editor@westseattleblog.com) – the City Light outage map now confirms an outage in Arbor Heights and Brace Point. They both reported an explosion-type sound preceding the power problem (for Jason, it’s out; for Kevin, it flickered). City Light says 134 households are affected and estimates restoration by 3 am (remember, it’s always more of a “guesstimate” at this point).

1:29 AM: The map now blames the outage on “tree” and estimates power back by 9 am.

9 AM NOTE: Jason says in comments that the power returned around 4:45.

lamont June 24, 2014 (1:14 am)

I live over in the central district and my power is currently out. The guys who were out here earlier said that they’ve been responding to 3 to 4 crows taking out transformers a day for the past couple of months. in our case out was real obvious and the dead crow was right on the side walk under the transformer.

WSB June 24, 2014 (1:27 am)

We did have one of those recently. Did this happens after dusk? Always seemed to me the crows went away somewhere when it got dark. … Meantime, the City Light site now blames this one on “tree.”