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The wind. Loudly rustling evergreens now and then, but not sustained pic.twitter.com/d99V0P43mx
— West Seattle Blog (@westseattleblog) March 1, 2016
3:19 PM: We have word of two outages so far – the Seattle City Light map shows 100+ customers out in the Seola/south Arbor Heights area:
And we just received a call from someone in Gatewood – right about the time our power flickered (but stayed on) here, south of Gatewood. It’s been about an hour and a half since the wind started kicking up – some gusts, but not a lot of sustained strong wind, so far.
3:40 PM: Gatewood’s still not on the map (California/Orchard was the area mentioned by the caller), but that historically outage-plagued area doesn’t always show. None of the lights on California in that area were out when we went by a few minutes ago.
3:51 PM: Now we have an explanation for the Gatewood outage – Cynthia and Scott have sent photos of a tree down on Gatewood Road:
4:05 PM: Thanks to Cathy for this report: “At Genesee and 49th, a tree has pulled down a wire, which is dangling into the middle of the street. Cars are swerving around it. Tried to call 911 but got put on hold for 15 minutes. May want to give folks a heads up.”
4:16 PM: Just got to that area – all clear now, and a City Light vehicle was just leaving.
4:27 PM: We’re now in Gatewood, where a variety of wires are down on Glenridge (same area as tree photo above). Neighbors have put out cones and have called it in but haven’t seen SCL yet.
4:44 PM: And an oddity that might just be coincidental to the wind, or not – Gay sent this photo of a “flying starfish,” explaining that a “neighbor kid and his chaperone” found it – about a third of a mile inland!
Gay says they’re speculating an eagle dropped it.
5:08 PM: Per comments, new trouble on Genesee – tree/wires at 48th.
5:21 PM: We’ve also had, for the third day in a row, rainbow reports! Thanks for the photos – this is from Al:
And right before the rainbow, Deb photographed hail in North Admiral:
Whitecaps on the water this afternoon, as this photo from Alki by W.T. Vandermark shows:
5:44 PM: Back to Gatewood, where Scott says City Light hasn’t arrived yet, though SDOT has helped block off the affected area:
The wind advisory remains in effect until 9 tonight.
6:30 PM: According to the City Light map, the number of customers still out in Seola/south Arbor Heights is down to 51.
6:44 PM: New tree trouble, tweeted by Mike Jensen:
Big tree down at 44th and Juneau in West Seattle @westseattleblog #warain pic.twitter.com/XWPXzft6sl
— Mike Jensen (@mjtwit) March 2, 2016
9 PM: Gatewood is back on, per Zephyr in comments. But the SCL map still has 51 out in Seola/south AH.
9:18 PM: Make that “some” in Gatewood – Scott says City Light is there but isn’t working yet, and his neighborhood remains without electricity.
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