UPDATE: Power back on after more than 3,500 lose electricity in east White Center, Top Hat, parts of Burien
(Above, the White Center/Top Hat section of the outage)
2:08 AM: Thanks to Alisha for the tip: The Seattle City Light map confirms a big power outage – in two distinct areas, primarily east White Center, Top Hat, and north/northwest Burien. More than 3,500 customers (homes and businesses) are affected. No word yet what caused it; it started around 1:45 am. We’ll update when we find out more.
2:46 AM: Most of the Burien customers have their power back, according to SCL. Still no word on the cause.
4:36 AM: The cause is now listed on SCL’s site as “tree.” No elaboration. And the number of customers out of power is down to just under 700.
UPDATE: Here’s the final word from City Light (with whom we’ll follow up on Monday to find out about WHERE the tree went into the lines):
Power has been restored on 2 am outage in Burien/White Center. The cause was a large tree in the lines.
— Seattle City Light (@SEACityLight) August 23, 2015
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August 23rd, 2015 at 2:44 am
I saw some bright light flashes from Seatac around that time frame. Transformers blowing maybe??
August 23rd, 2015 at 4:35 am
The cause is now listed as “tree.” Where, and what happened, I don’t know, but that’s the latest.
August 23rd, 2015 at 10:01 am
J, we saw two bright flashes around then as well, from Highland Park, and were wondering what it was. Now we know!
August 30th, 2015 at 3:51 am
10th Ave SW still has no power. Any idea when we can expect this to get fixed?
August 30th, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Hi, my apologies, different outage which we had been covering primarily on our main site West Seattle Blog. Hope you’re back on now – all but about 400 were back by mid-afternoon – check http://seattle.gov/light/sysstat – Tracy