February 12

Was Saturday’s power outage in Maple Leaf caused by a crow?

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Power was out in much of Maple Leaf between about 1:15 and 2:00 Saturday afternoon, and Josh thinks the culprit was a bird – now deceased.

“Just a heads up to let you know the power outage was caused, apparently, by a crow electrocuted in power lines at 8th and 96th,” he emailed.

(We missed the outage, as we were chasing crows ourselves at the First Annual Edison Bird Festival.)

Kristin, on Northeast 97th Street between Roosevelt Way Northeast and Eighth Avenue Northeast, emailed: “All of the power went out around 1:20 p.m. Lights flickered, heard a boom, and all power went out. Any idea what caused it?”

Jeff emailed that he lost power at 1:24 p.m. at Northeast 95th Street and Roosevelt. “Is it just me or others without power too?”

Jill Killen, at Cloud City Coffee, said 2,344 Seattle City Light customers – most of Maple Leaf – were affected by the outage.

The outage was tracked on Twitter by neighboring blogs, and also by @outagetracker, which posts on outages throughout the country.

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  1. The power went off on Lake City Way, north of NE 125th on Saturday too, about 1:20-1:30. Didn’t stay long enough to see power restored. A murder of crows?

  2. Sad. Did anyone witness the incredible crow grieving that goes on when one dies? They call out, and hundreds come and surround the dead and stay for a long time to screech mourn.

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