SEATTLE — Lighting and rain caused scattered power outages in Madrona and neighborhoods in northeast and northwest Seattle. Not all customers within these general boundaries are affected:

•  Outage reported at 11:48 p.m., Nov. 5, 2009 affecting about 2,065 customers.  Power was restored to about 63 percent of these customers at about 1 a.m., Nov.6. The original boundaries of this outage were E. Pike St. on the north, S. King St. on the south, Lake Washington on the east and 23^rd Ave. on the west.  This outage was caused by lightning. The estimated restoration time for the remaining customers without power  is not immediately known.
•   Outage reported at 11:46 p.m., Nov. 5, 2009 affecting about 2,600 customers. Power was fully restored at approximately 2:10 a.m.,  Nov. 6. The original boundaries of this outage were N 123^rd St. on the north, N 70^th St. on the south, Corliss Ave. N. on the east and 8^th Ave. NW on the west.  This outage was caused by lightening. 
•  Outage reported at 11:42 p.m., Nov. 5, 2009 affecting about 3,192 customers. This outage was fully restoreed at approximately 1:15 a.m., Nov. 6.  The original boundaries of this outage were NE 123^rd St. on the north, NE 74^th St. on the south, Lake Washington on the east and 5^th Ave. NE on the west.  This outage was caused by a pole fire.  

Seattle City Light is the ninth largest public electric utility in the United States.  It has 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.

City Light crews returned power to approximately 3,800 customers in the Queen Anne neighborhood at about 8:50 p.m., November 5.

The outage was caused by trees in the wires. This outage was originally reported at about 7 p.m. City Light crews were quickly dispatched to clear the trees and make repairs.

The general boundaries of the outage were: W. Ewing St. on the north, Mercer St. on the south, 6^th Ave. N. on the east and 14^th Ave. W. on the west.  Not all homes and businesses within these general boundaries were affected.

Seattle City Light is the ninth largest public electric utility in the United States.  It has 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.

Power has been restored to all customers in the Queen Anne and Magnolia neighborhoods. What we (City Light) know at this point is that a planned repair in an underground vault near the Seattle Center was completed on schedule early Saturday morning. In order to prepare a test of the repair, power for the Center was diverted to an alternate feeder (a feeder is a big line that transmits power to large areas of the city).

At that point, a junction box failed on the alternate feeder. Power was switched to a second alternate feeder in order to identify what repairs needed to be made. On Sunday, we had a failure on this second alternate feeder at another location.

Crews were sent out to isolate the problem and our switching operators were able to restore power to customers using multiple feeders. Meanwhile repairs are ongoing to the original junction box and failed cable.

There is no estimate for completion of the original repairs.