Comments on: Power back on after overnight outage

By: BOB-ANDY THE SCL TROLL

BOB-ANDY THE SCL TROLL — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:26:37 +0000

ANIMAL! HIS NAME IS ANIMAL!

By: Name

Name — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:05:58 +0000

food isn't going to go bad after an hour and a half… : /

By: Oldgirl

Oldgirl — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:12:38 +0000

Slept through it all. The clocks were blinking 2:12, they reset at 12:00 so the power came on at least 2 hours before I noticed. Sorry I missed it.

By: Silver

Silver — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:24:01 +0000

Thanks for the info! I have yet to succumb to twitter…

By: SPG

SPG — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:02:19 +0000

The drummer from the Muppet Show.

By: 6_11_000

6_11_000 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:07:19 +0000

Animal….what animal can cause a major buss to short circuit???!!! A little more detail, please!

By: HeardOnthe44

HeardOnthe44 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:24:00 +0000

I can't believe I slept through the whole thing !

By: ballardbean

ballardbean — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:02:56 +0000

it was beautiful… eeerie though… I woke up because it was so quiet!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:43:27 +0000

My power went off just for a split second at around midnight, then came back on and I immediately heard a loud boom (sound probably took some time to travel to me at 53rd and 11th in Ballard).

My guess is that the boom indicates some sort of 'unplanned outage.'

By: Name

Name — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:23:05 +0000

We live at 3rd & 49th and lost our power.

By: ironymaiden

ironymaiden — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:54:54 +0000

City Light Twitter finally updated: “This AM's power outage in Ballard/Fremont caused by animal short circuiting a major buss at the Canal Substation. Power restored in 2 hrs.”

By: Name

Name — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:49:16 +0000

We live at 74th and 1st nw – and also awoke to hard wired smoke alarms beeping when the power went out. I think 1st was the cut off because up the block power was on.

By: kim

kim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:33:40 +0000

for those of us that were up, it was really a beautiful moment on a fairly clear night w/a full moon. no street lights, no car lights and peaceful. seattle doesn't get that too often and on the west side of ballard, it rarely happens. all was calm, all was bright…..oops! sorry, wrong holiday.

By: Jules

Jules — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:17:16 +0000

I'm on 65th and 32nd…heard a big bang, and then…darkness. (however, I had dozens of candles from Halloween out, so no problemo.Rather charming effect, actually, but made reading difficult. Let's all say a heartfelt thank-you to Thomas Edison right now.) I went for a little drive and observed: Power out from 67th south…street lights out up to about 26th. Parts of 24th south of 65th had power, and other parts did not. Since I was up and had the TV, computer, and dishwasher going, I waited until the power came back on to go to bed. Nothing says “heart attack” more than going to bed and having all the lights and TV you forgot to turn off roar back to life.

By: dahilly

dahilly — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:10:04 +0000

Same thing happened to me in regards to my AT&T cellphone going into SOS mode at the same time as the power going out

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:57:48 +0000

For some odd reason all of our hard wired smoke alarms went off at 12:20 AM so we woke up to a complete panic in the dark.

Power came back at roughly 1:15 AM.

We're at 6th and 54th so south of Market.

After disabling the smoke alarms I took a look out of our westward facing windows and everything was dark from the ship canal to as far north as I could see, and from our place all the way west to 15th Ave.

There was also a power outage in Fremont, the business I work at is near where 36th becomes Leary Way, and the power was out here from shortly after midnight until at least 2:30 AM.

Pretty major power outage if it's affecting multiple locations over a mile apart...

By: poppetwa

poppetwa — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:47:10 +0000

What was so frustrating about this is that when I did call the emergency line at Seattle City Light to get the update, the information message was full of "Um's, ah's" and finally when they finally got to the outage information the zone was listed from "the Puget Sound to the west, Aurora Avenue to the East, 85th to the North and the Ship Canal to the South. Approximately 12,000 customers were impacted with no cause or ETA of repair." So if it was a "planned" outage, why would they not know the cause? While I try not to be too critical of emergency personelle as I know it's stressful, seriously, I write a script for my personal voicemail, and that's just heard by my friends and family calling, I would think that someone recordning a message to be heard by the public would at least have some of the details a little closer at hand. Just my 2 cents.

The other thing that I found strange was simultaneously as the power went out my AT&T phone went into SOS mode which made me think that something serious was happening, (note my T-Mobile device had no such problem).

Even the fire station on Market looked dark, but that may have been just that they were hopefully sleeping.

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:40:01 +0000

I didn't hear a bang so never woke up. If my power went out it was back by the time I got up and about. Plus my alarm clock is plugged in with a battery back-up, so I would never had known there was a power outage if not for this. I've got leftovers in the fridge I'm throwing out 'just in case' but it would have been nice to have an official word before I ate something I would regret later.

By: robotspider

robotspider — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:38:05 +0000

Add some credibility to your statement and tell us what business you represent. Considering no one else is backing this up I'm doubtful of your truthfulness.

By: robotspider

robotspider — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:34:14 +0000

Hence why the PI went under. Their days have come and gone.

By: Name

Name — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:18:56 +0000

i live on 60th and 15th and my power never went out.

By: Phinney Gulch

Phinney Gulch — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:33:50 +0000

Power was out in “Phinney Gulch,” as far N as 70th and as far E as 3rd, from about midnight until about 1:40AM.

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:53:38 +0000

The QA 'planned outage' was on both the blog and the big paper site (think it was the Times). If this was also planned, I'm a little surprised and upset nobody knew.
What are we, chopped liver!?

By: zola22

zola22 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:53:28 +0000

Once again, There's no mention of this power outage on the Seattle City Light website. or thier blog “power lines”. or thier “twitter”. When is Seattle City Light going to learn to communicate with the people? How hard would it be to just post EVERY press release they send out on their website?? Seattle City Light is struggling with an old infrastructure and even older view of how to manage their community relations.

By: NoraBell

NoraBell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:50:02 +0000

Weren't the QA outages 'planned outages?' I could be wrong about that. But a planned outage would be newsworthy if only to let people know and prepare for it.
Seems like the big boys are letting these little neighborhood blogs do a lot of their work, though.

By: Silver

Silver — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:48:58 +0000

I seem to remember that this is what they said before they blew up Queen Anne's power grid, too. ;-(

By: kaffeekuchen

kaffeekuchen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:36:41 +0000

If that's the case, then it would've been nice if they'd notified the rest of us!

By: Some Chick

Some Chick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:31:43 +0000

Actually, Seattle City Light contacted us (a business on the Missing Link) Friday to let us know they were going to shut off the power sometime Sunday. I assume they were trying to fix or test something.

By: equiferus

equiferus — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:14:17 +0000

I can tell you that the power outage definitely came over to 3rd NW in the above-65th category. We all got up this morning marveling over how nice and bright it was thanks to the return to Standard Time and were getting ready in a leisurely fashion until we glanced at the lone battery-powered clock and got quite a startle, scurried to check times on cell phones and computers to confirm it, and then said “whoops! Hurry!” as we realized it was 7:30 and not just before 6 a.m….

By: ballardgirl19

ballardgirl19 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:59:55 +0000

We overslept for work because we heard nothing, and our alarms never went off , does anyone know what happened?