City Light Crews Restore 15,000+ Customers in 3 Hours — Less Than 5,000 Customers Without Power

SEATTLE — City Light crews are working to restore power to various neighborhoods in Seattle and other outlying areas in its service territory. As of this 8 p.m. notice, there are less than 5,000 customers without power. Below are some of the major outages in the area:

• North
  -Serving Ravenna, Bryant, View Ridge, Matthews Beach, Wedgwood
  -2,858 customers without power
  -Estimated time of restoration is 10 p.m.
  -Cause weather related (wind, rain, tree branches)
  -Boundaries: N – NE 106^th St; E – Lake Washington; S – 8^th Ave NE; W – NE 75^th St.
• University
  -Serving Wallingford, Stevens, Lake Union, Lake Washington Eastlake, Montlake, Broadway
  -339 customers without power
  -Estimated time of restoration is 9:30 p.m.
  -Cause weather related (wind, rain, tree branches)
  -Boundaries: N – Ship Canal; E – Lake Washington; S – E Garfield; W – Yale Ave E

To view the outage map, please visit http://www.seattle.gov/light/sysstat/. For hourly up-to-date information, please follow Seattle City Light’s Facebook and Twitter page.

Seattle City Light is the tenth largest public electric utility in the United States. It has some of the lowest cost customer rates of any urban utility, providing reliable, renewable and environmentally responsible power to nearly 1 million Seattle area residents. City Light has been greenhouse gas neutral since 2005, the first electric utility in the nation to achieve that distinction.

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