Update: Transformer blamed for Delridge outage

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(photo courtesy Ken, added 4:46 pm)
Got a note from a West Ridge Apartments (map) resident wondering what we know about why their power’s been out since early this morning. Checked with Scott Thomsen at Seattle City Light, who replies, “Crews are working on repairs. They have not been able to identify a cause yet. They are about to try re-energizing. It might hold or it should give us a more accurate indication of what went wrong.” He says 87 customers (which can mean homes/businesses, but that area’s all residential as far as we know) are affected. 4:47 PM UPDATE: Power’s still out but Thomsen says they’ve traced it to a transformer failure and are estimating the power will be back around 7:30 pm.

Que July 14, 2009 (4:51 pm)

It must have been one of the Decepticons!

Mike July 14, 2009 (7:59 pm)

I think there’s more than meets the eye to this story.

Sue July 14, 2009 (8:31 pm)

Hopefully they’ll figure it out soon. When we lived there, during the big blackouts a few winters ago, we had no power for 5 days in the back end of the complex, while the front end was restored. They lied to us constantly about the causes for it and how long it would take, even telling us it had been fixed (while I was sitting in my cold, dark apartment). I’m so glad I don’t live there anymore.

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