7:50 AM: Thanks for the tips. 100 customers in the Seola Beach area lost power about half an hour ago.
10:25 AM: 104 homes still out after three hours. Checking with Seattle City Light to see if they have info on the cause.
11:09 AM: In comments, Sara says the Seola problem is a tree. Also in comments, CBOB points out there’s also an outage in the White Center/South Delridge area, affecting 48 customers:
SCL attributes this one to “equipment failure.”
2:40 PM: Neither outage is over yet. SCL now officially attributes the Seola problem to a tree.
6:21 PM: SCL spokesperson Jenn Strang tells us that “Crews are working to restore power to those affected in the Seola Beach outage where a large tree branch came down across the wires. Repair work is estimated to be completed (by approximately 7 pm).” Sarah sent this pic of the problem:
9:08 PM: As noted in comments, the Seola outage is over after 14 hours. The map shows the White Center/South Delridge outage is resolved too, though we don’t know what time that one ended.
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