UPDATE: West Seattle power outage affects nearly 5,000; Now down to 146

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Update at 7.00

Power is back on for most of those affected, except for a group of 146 customers north of Me Kwa Mooks Park along Beach Drive SW from SW Orleans Street north to approximately SW Oregon Street. That power is expected to be back on at 3 p.m.

December 13 power outage update

Update 21:07

Some power is back mostly south of the original fault with 1600 customers having service restored. City Light projects restoration tonight.

One reader shared, “the start of the power outage started at my house when a tree fell down the hill, took out the power lines next to my house and part of my car. The cause was not the transformer, the cause was the tree that went down by my house and took the power up here and then went down to the beach and blew the transformer because when our lights went out there was still lights on Beach Drive.”

Tree fall
A tree that fell in the 4100 block of Beach Drive took out a transformer and damaged a car. Photo courtesy of Marci Eversole.

broken car
The car was crushed by a large falling tree. Photo courtesy of Marci Eversole

Original post 20:17

A power outage affecting 4910 City Light customers in West Seattle hit just after 1 p.m. Restoration was not expected until

The outage affected a wide area including Alki Point, Beach Drive and down to SW Holly Street. It was primarily west of 49th SW.

The cause was a blown transformer in the 4100 block of Beach Drive SW. You can check the status of the outage on the City Light system status page here

https://seattle.gov/city-light/outages