8:24 AM: Thanks for the tips. 319 Seattle City Light customers in Brace Point are reported out of power this morning, in an area hit by outages before.
9:54 AM: The SCL map shows the number of residences affected has since been halved, to 160 (screengrab added above). … Our archives show this is the first Brace Point-only outage in almost a year, since last April.
12:41 PM: As noted in comments, now the number of affected customers is back up to 319. The map also attributes the outage to “equipment failure” (historically, that’s meant trouble with the underground cable in the area – we will be following up with SCL).
2:40 PM: Area neighbor Nathan, one of the original tipsters (thank you!) about this, sent that photo of an SCL crew with whom he spoke this past hour: “Just talked to the crew working at 47th and 98th, they are still testing to locate exact location of the failed line.”
9:59 PM: After almost 15 hours, the power is back. We’ll be following up with SCL on Monday, including whether the years-overdue upgrade project in the area is really on track to finally start soon, as its website suggests.
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