10:51 AM: Thanks for the tips. A power outage has taken out more than 3,200 customers, mostly in northeast West Seattle, though also stretching southward toward High Point. Updates to come.
10:59 AM: No word yet on the cause of this. If you’re hearing sirens/seeing fire trucks, note that outages sometimes trigger automatic fire alarms, and that’s happened in at least two places so far. Note that much if not all of the Admiral business district is in the outage zone – also some signalized intersections (which become all-way stops when the signal’s dark).
11:42 AM: The southernmost stretch of the outage has been restored – so it’s down to just under 2,000 customers. Here’s the updated outage map:
12:35 PM: No change since then, and we’re still awaiting SCL’s response on the cause. Meantime, WSB’s Aspen Anderson is checking on the Admiral District and confirms commenter report that Metropolitan Market is closed:
Admiral Starbucks is among the other businesses without power. Traffic signals too.
(WSB photos)
12:47 PM: Also out, Aspen reports, is the Admiral Bartell Drugs. And as mentioned in comments, West Seattle (Admiral) Library continues using paper slips like this to check people out:
However, the libary computers are not working, nor other equipment. But they say they lose power once a year so they have this system in place — but they are trying to stay open as long as possible. … Mud Bay is open and checking people out with a handheld credit-card device.
12:54 PM: Another 300 customers just got power back. … That includes Admiral Safeway, where, Aspen report, the “produce/cold drink sections closed right before the power went back on — they are giving produce a minute to come back to temperature.”
1:04 PM: Now all are back on; we’ve confirmed the Admiral District is back. Aspen says Metropolitan Market tells her they’ll stay closed an hour or so more, to be sure temperatures are all in “safe zones.”
ADDED MONDAY EVENING: Regarding the cause, an SCL spokesperson tells WSB, “It was not related to the planned outage in the adjacent area. Our systems operations center said that there was a mainstem cable on the feeder that failed.” (We’ve requested a bit more explanation, such as where this cable is/was.)
ADDED TUESDAY MORNING: To that question, SCL spokesperson Jenn Strang responded, “The main issue occurred in the vicinity of SW Admiral Wy and SW City View St.”
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