UPDATE: Another West Seattle power outage

7:22 PM: Thanks for the tip. For the third consecutive day, there’s a power outage of note in West Seattle. This time, more than 300 customers are out east of California, between Edmunds and Genesee. No “wires down” SFD dispatch this time, so we’re not sure about its origin – the texter who tipped us said they heard a “boom” near Oregon/40th.

7:33 PM: Commenter Deborah says this was a case of bird vs. wire.

8:07 PM: Some have their power back already, and SCL shows the outage is down to 261 customers.

10:48 PM: Everybody’s back on since our last check.

4 Replies to "UPDATE: Another West Seattle power outage"

  • Deborah June 17, 2025 (7:25 pm)

    There is a crow that hit transformer, poor thing is still hanging there. Huge boom!

    • WSB June 17, 2025 (7:30 pm)

      Thanks for the update. We just drove around the area a bit and didn’t see anything obvious, even ducked into the bowling alley to be sure they didn’t lose power (they didn’t).

      • Jackie June 17, 2025 (7:37 pm)

        It happened in the parking lot of the Bank of America on 40th and Alaska

  • Rosey June 17, 2025 (7:30 pm)

    Will confirm first comment, young crow learned the extra hard way about hitting a transformer in the BofA parking lot across from Whole Foods.

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