SAN JUAN COUNTY, Wash. — Crews restored power to most of the San Juan Islands Tuesday morning after widespread outages Monday night.
Orcas Power & Light Cooperative (OPALCO) tweeted power was out for the entire county just before 9 p.m. Monday.
The outage was caused by a fault on Lopez Island between a substation and switching station, according to OPALCO. Most of Orcas Island's power was restored before 11 p.m. Power was back for Shaw, Blakely and Decatur islands by early Tuesday morning.
As of 10:50 a.m. Tuesday, OPALCO reported less than 40 customers were still without power. All of the remaining outages were scattered across San Juan Island, according to the OPALCO outage map.
The widespread outage comes as strong winds persist in the region.
A Wind Advisory is in effect until 4 p.m. Tuesday for western Whatcom, San Juan, and Skagit counties. The National Weather Service (NWS) said to expect northwest winds of 30-40 mph with gusts up to 55 mph.
Strong winds could help break daily low-temperature records for the north coast and northern interior areas, according to the NWS.
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