5:48 PM: Greater than 4,900 properties and companies are out of energy proper now, principally in northwest West Seattle. Unsure but about what’s in charge – a number of timber have simply been reported down, together with one at California/Alaska in The Junction blocking a part of northbound California.
(Because of Amy for the picture – she says “It hit a row of Lime bikes however nothing else”)
(Added: WSB picture by Oliver Hamlin, displaying the aforementioned Lime bikes)
Updates to come back.
5:54 PM: Police radio signifies the outage is probably going associated to a tree down within the Admiral space. (Precisely the place, we don’t know – nothing telltale on the SFD or SPD logs.) You’ve in all probability seen the wind kicking up large time this night – the Nationwide Climate Service didn’t have our space beneath an alert for that, although.
6:20 PM: The wind has calmed considerably, at the least up right here.
6:42 PM: A commenter factors out that the NWS has belatedly posted a Wind Advisory alert, timestamped 6:10 pm, in impact till midnight.
7:41 PM: A number of notes/feedback recommend this originated someplace on this space uphill from south Alki.
7:57 PM: Our archives say that is the fifteenth West Seattle outage this 12 months affecting 100 or extra clients. Half have been blamed on falling timber. We additionally had a number of attributable to drivers hitting poles, an unlucky chook, an unexplained pole fireplace, and the newest one earlier than this, 3,000 clients on November 23, was blamed on “a damaged cross-arm.”
8:43 PM: Nonetheless out. Keep in mind, don’t open your fridge/freezer – the air temp will keep low for hours. What number of hours? Right here’s the federal recommendation.
9:51 PM: No updates; fifth hour now. The shoppers out in West Seattle at the moment are greater than two-thirds of these out SCL-wide.
10:03 PM: Yma factors out in feedback that the Wind Advisory has been prolonged to three am. It’s additionally now suggesting high gusts may attain 55 mph, 10 mph above the earlier forecast.
10:50 PM: Noticed a flicker, hoped it meant some have been getting restored, and certainly, the SCL map says the ability’s again on for many. Fewer than 100 are nonetheless proven as out.
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