KIRO is reporting that about 22,000 Seattle Puget Sound residents are without power this morning after 90mph winds ripped through the area yesterday.
Apparently Whatcom and Thurston counties were hit hardest, and Whatcom customers should have their power back up and running today.
From KIROTV.com:
One of the earliest outages was before dawn around Monroe, where about 8,000 customers lost power for a time after three substations went off line, said Neil Neroutsos, a spokesman for the Snohomish County Public Utility District.That problem was resolved fairly quickly, but later storm-related problems cut power to about 1,400 customers in the Lake Stevens area, Neroutsos said.
The region's largest utility, Puget Sound Energy, had roughly 37,000 customers in the dark in nine counties, spokeswoman Christina Mills said.
More than 15,000 customers were without electricity in the Grays Harbor County Public Utility District, spokeswoman Liz Anderson reported.
"We don't have an estimate on restoration time," Anderson said, "but it's going to take hours, not days, and should be well into the evening for some customers."
At least 9,300 Cowlitz County PUD customers were in the dark, along with 8,000 in the Clallam County PUD, utility officials said.
Seattle City Light reported nearly 3,900 customers without power in the Burien area because of a failure in a feeder line and more than 100 within Seattle for other reasons.
Windy weather was blamed for outages that hit about 2,000 homes and businesses north of Vancouver, Wash., mostly in and around Yacolt, Amboy and Ridgefield, said Mick Shutt, a spokesman for the Clark County Public Utility District.
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