City Light is working to restore power to more than 3,7
00 customers in Eastlake and on the northwest edge of Capitol Hill following an outage in the area starting around 5:45 AM Monday morning. UPDATE: Good progress! City Light says the outage is down to 1,700 customers as of 6:22 AM.
People living in the area reported booms before the power failed — typically a sign of blown transformers.
City Light currently estimates crews will have the situation fixed by 11:40 AM. City Light reports the boundaries are on the North, E Allison St, on the south, E. Republican St, on the east 13th Ave E and on the west Minor Ave E.
The agency is also dealing with an outage in West Seattle “Crews are en route to both locations,” City Light says. “Not all customers within these boundaries are affected.”
Hopefully your plan to make a little figgy pudding can wait.
UPDATE 9:45 AM: From City Light — “@SEACityLight: Power out on Capitol Hill. 6390 customers out. Outage related to the earlier outage, which caused a second feeder to trip. crews enroute.” City Light estimates service will be restored by 1 PM.
UPDATE 1:00 PM: Around 3,700 customers still remain without power around Capitol Hill. City Light’s estimate for repair is now 2 PM.
UPDATE 1:15 PM: All is well. From City Light: “Power has been restored to outage affecting Eastlake and Capitol Hill. Crews on site said a distribution wire had failed.”
We just lost power at apr. 10:30am on the 300 block of 22nd b/ Republican and Thomas.
Lost power near 12th and Aloha at 9:40a.
Just like a couple weeks ago I heard the BOOM! but had no loss of power @ E Denny Way. These days I hear explosions and just roll over and go back to sleep. But, sincere condolences to those people who’ve been without power recently. I’ve been there and it sux.
Are we that dependent that we can’t live without power for a few hours?
A lot of businesses are without power on a busy shopping day, meaning they are losing money. I guess they are just a bunch of whiners though.
Oh! Of course. Nevermind. The fact it’s almost all residential means nothing.
Not sure I understand your comment there. I was being facetious, if it helps. It sucks for everyone that the power was off.
Also, I was just on Broadway, and most businesses on the north end were without power. That’s pretty major, and tough considering this time of year helps many small businesses power through the rest of the year.
I’m an idjit today. I apologize.
Apologies to Jamie. It’s no excuse that I’ve been having a hard week and I’m very sorry to rant at the wrong target. Sincere apologies from Janet.
No worries, been there. Hope your week gets better. :)
Is that addressed to me? I’ll take the question just in case. It’s a problem for anyone with food in the fridge/freezers. It’s a problem for anyone who works from home via the internet. It’s COLD today if you’re without heat. Never said it was the end of the world, but sincerely again, condolences to all.
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