About last night’s mystery flash/boom

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Stepping away from the scanner for a few minutes to run an errand late last night, we missed the news that many people had called in about a loud boom and flash, audible/visible from northeast West Seattle. The Seattle City Light map didn’t show any outages. But this morning via Twitter, SCL says it was indeed a power-line situation – across the Duwamish River – “a bird got into the wrong place” at East Marginal and Oregon. A one-customer outage resulted – not shown on the map, but SCL reminds us that a few areas of their service territory remain off-map – and was repaired within three hours.

sc June 9, 2017 (9:04 am)

I heard the boom and wondered what event was happening for someone to fire up a cherry bomb?

Chipotlebbq June 9, 2017 (9:13 am)

Oh Hotwings- we hardly knew ya…!?

Ric June 9, 2017 (9:58 am)

Awesome comment!

Vanessa June 9, 2017 (9:47 am)

Poor little hotwings!

That boom was really LOUD.

(Grateful tho, for not having 25 minutes of screaming sirens for something.)

Gunshy June 9, 2017 (10:48 am)

Happy this was something minor but hate that my mind immediately thinks, “gunshots!”

Heather June 9, 2017 (1:32 pm)

That is definitely not what a gun shot sounds like! That was more of an explosion.

heardaboom June 9, 2017 (10:58 am)

I was wondering. WSB is the best!!!

cjboffoli June 9, 2017 (10:58 am)

Bye Bye Birdie

Trickycoolj June 9, 2017 (11:54 am)

Definitely assumed M-80 and was concerned 4th of July was starting so early. Actually glad to hear it wasn’t!

GHO June 9, 2017 (1:21 pm)

What about the one around 8:30am near the Junction today? That’s what I thought I was going to read about…

WSB June 9, 2017 (2:09 pm)

Don’t know. This one eventually brought in a lot of questions … looks like we have one text about a flicker this morning … I don’t know anything more.

Highpoint Neighbor June 9, 2017 (3:53 pm)

I live near 32nd and Juneau and someone on my street set off a single big firework at 11:00pm

Firewhat June 9, 2017 (11:17 pm)

Wait, I live near 35th & Juneau. A single really large firework actually explains what I heard better than a bird on a wire on the Duwamish (a mile away). This was loud enough to rattle my house. Given the inverse square law of sound diminishing, if what I heard was an explosion on the Duwamish we are talking something that would have shattered every window in pigeon Point.

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