SEATTLE — Puget Sound Energy (PSE) said Sunday evening that power has been restored to most of its customers, days after a bomb cyclone damaged power lines and downed trees across western Washington.
According to PSE, 97% of customers impacted by Tuesday's storm have power restored. PSE said the remaining customers without power had their estimated restoration time pushed back because of the amount of damage found by crews.
PSE said there are about 3,000 customers without power in South King County, primarily in Renton Highlands, Enumclaw, Maple Valley, Hobart and Ravensdale. Many of these customers had power restored Sunday night, while the remaining customers are expected to have power by Monday at 3 p.m., according to PSE.
PSE estimated there are 18,000 customers without power in North King County, primarily in Issaquah, Mirrormont, Sammamish, Mercer Islands and parts of Bellevue. These people will have their power restored by Monday at 10 a.m., while some had their estimated time for restoration pushed to Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Customers can check the status for your power restoration using PSE's outage map.
“We know our customers have been making plans based on our estimates and that this has been a long and difficult time for them,” said Michelle Vargo, PSE senior vice president of operations. “Our crews have been pushing hard to meet the estimates we provided earlier. Now that we have different expectations for some customers, we want them to know as soon as possible. Work will continue around the clock until power is restored to every customer impacted by last Tuesday’s powerful storm.”
PSE said this storm caused one of the largest outages in recent years. It was on par with two storms in the last 20 years. In January 2012, a storm caused an eight-day outage that impacted 476,000 people, and in December 2006, 700,000 people were out of power for multiple days.
