6:32 PM: More than 50 homes/businesses in pockets along Roxbury, between 35th and 20th, are without power, but Seattle City Light crews tell us it shouldn’t last much longer. It’s affecting signals, though, including 30th/Roxbury, so be careful and treat any nonworking signal intersection as a four-way stop. The cause is listed as “equipment failure,” apparently in a vault.
7 PM: The map suggests the easternmost pockets have been restored.
great, dont let the doomers hear this. they’ll head for the survivalist shelters because in their minds its proof that the solar flairs are permanently knocking out the power grid. ( gigantic eye roll)
sophista-tiki, it’s not a doomers thing, it’s a legitimate concern. It has done it in the past and can do it again. Welcome to science. :)
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http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/archive/current_month.html
Mike’s right, it is really interesting that we had a weird spotty outage like this at a time of increased EMF. Might just be a huge coincidence, but I’d love to know what City Light finds out.
It’s only a doomer issue because a gigantic coronal mass ejection could be very bad news for the planet. So could an asteroid; one passed within 25,000 miles of us a few days ago.
Power is back out at 34th and Roxbury, and the crew says it will be 6-8 hours before restoration.
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