Just before sunset Friday night, and today.
Seattle City light now says it expects to have 75 percent of customers restored by 8 p.m.
Update 5 p.m.Seattle City light now says it expects to have 75 percent of customers restored by 8 p.m.
12:15 p.m. A downed tree has closed 15th Avenue Northeast at Northeast 100th Street.
11:30 a.m. 10:15 a.m. Seattle City Light now has around 18,000 36,000 customers without power in this morning’s windstorm, with about 3,000 3,800 of them in the Maple Leaf/Wedgwood area. See current map here.
The Seattle Times reports the north Seattle outages are expected to continue until 4 p.m.
More is on the way. From the National Weather Service Seattle office:
.NOW…WINDS WILL EXPERIENCE A SUDDEN SHIFT AND INCREASE QUICKLY OUT OF THE WEST BETWEEN NOW AND 1130 AM…AS A STRONG SURGE OF WIND SPREADS DOWN THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA. LOOKS FOR WINDS TO SUDDENLY INCREASE IN SPEED TO NEAR 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 65 MPH.
STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR IN LOCATIONS THAT HAVE AN OPEN EXPOSURE TO THE STRAIT. WINDS THIS STRONG WILL BE CAPABLE OF CAUSING LOCAL POWER OUTAGES AND BLOWING DOWN A FEW TREES. A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING.
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South fence at the upper reservoir park.
A gusty morning has already led to at least one area of Maple Leaf that has lost power, on 97th between Roosevelt and 15th.
It’s not marked yet on Seattle City Light’s outage map, so please let us know who else is in the dark out there! See comments below.
(Winds to 34 mph so far this a.m. at Maple Leaf Life South.)
Regarding the tree branch/trunk that fell down onto 15th NE:
Those trees are so significantly cantilevered over the roadway, it’s always amazed me that they haven’t fallen over before now.
Usually trees are symmetrical, with a balancing overhang on the other side, but these are all one-sided.
At what point does the City step in with some prevention rather than waiting for the inevitable to occur? What if a car had been under it, or some other “what if”?
Sue-Check out http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/Strong-winds-batter-Western-Washington-shut-down-4949614.php
for a snippet on the two-year old injured by a fallen tree. Sounds like the injuries are not life-threatening.
No outage. Heard the transformer blow.
Neighbors skylight blew out.
QFC was not selling anything from the meat or dairy sections as of 6:00 pm, their power had been restored since about 4:00. Beer aisle, no problem so am now drinking dinner.
a 2-year-old was hurt when a branch fell from a tree at Roosevelt Way NE and NE 42nd street in Seattle. Anyone know more? I know this is a bit south of Maple Leaf. Poor baby.
Ours came back just before 3. 96th & 15th.
95th East of 15th never went out at all.
Thanks to City Light for getting it back up so quickly in the face of such a huge outage!
Out at 103rd and 11th as of 9:00 AM – City Light projects they will restore by 4:00 PM.
Currently watching Seattle city light remove a branch that was shorting out the upper feeder lines on 97 and 19th.
We lucked out on NE 89th, just E of 15th, no power out, but Comcast TV/Internet was down from 9 to noon.
Thanks we called and they are sending someone out. It is on the se corner of 98th and 8th street and not 5th
out on 87th NW
Melissa: for wires down call 911
Looks like a downed power line at 98th and 5th. Could not get through to Seattle light.
NE 96th, and 20th. Power went out around 9
Ours went out at 9 am. We are at NE 95th and 3rd NE.
Out on 90th and 20th, which means Lake City Way’s traffic light at 20th by the Shell station.
89th and 17th
Out at 95th just east of Roosevelt
104th north to the creek is dark; didn’t check the Northgate intersections.
Out on 92nd & 15th
Out on 100th at 15th