Day 5, and still no power.....
5 days now has exceeded the severity from when I was little. This is out of control....
My way home from Seattle Sunday morning was interesting-- multiple stops for mom's b-day including cake at the store, WalMart for Pirates of the Carribean 2 (she wanted for bday) and Starbucks (the line was bloody OUT THE DOOR). Then we went to Bellevue Square (were mostly disappointed) and then trekked to Southcenter (much more successful) and then eventually home.
Someone in the neighborhood got pissed off enough about the fact that the power company hadn't done anything about the tree that they risked life and limb to cut down the tree and clear the road. They got a LOT of firewood out of the deal... except it's not seasoned. Harder to burn. But still.
Tonight when I came home, the power had slowly creeped farther up the mountain. For those of you familiar with the area, the power ended RIGHT at the Lake McDonald clubhouse. It's so close that I want to cry out of frustration. Maybe, just maybe by tomorrow evening.... but we're quickly approaching the week mark.
From the PSE website:
The scope and severity of damage to Puget Sound Energy's electric system from Friday's windstorm is unprecedented. In many hard-hit areas, our crews are having to re-build the system from the substation to customers' doors - after downed trees and debris are cleared away. Crews now have successfully repaired the core backbone of the system - our high-voltage transmission grid - and as of midmorning Monday, they'd restored power to more than 525,000 of the 700,000 customers who lost power.
We're continuing to repair other portions of our transmission and distribution systems, with more than 400 crews, representing over 2,000 workers, involved in the restoration effort. Besides our local crews, PSE has enlisted nearly 170 additional crews from across the western United States and Canada to help restore customers' power, and two dozen more crews are arriving later today from Missouri. Because the storm's damage is so widespread, however, we believe it will take most of this week to restore power to everyone in the hardest-hit areas.
Can't tell which one we'd fall under:
Bellevue and Newcastle areas
Restoration efforts in heavily damaged pockets of Bellevue, especially the Northrup, Lake Hills, Eastgate, Phantom Lake, and Newcastle areas likely will continue late into the week, perhaps Friday or Saturday. Crews are focused on repairing damage to the local distribution lines that serve customers.
Issaquah / Hobart area
Power has been restored to all five substations serving the Issaquah/Hobart community. Numerous pockets of outages, however, will still exist until later in the week, perhaps Thursday or Friday. For neighborhoods served by the now energized substations, we are working to repair the local distribution lines to restore customers' power as quickly as we can.
My way home from Seattle Sunday morning was interesting-- multiple stops for mom's b-day including cake at the store, WalMart for Pirates of the Carribean 2 (she wanted for bday) and Starbucks (the line was bloody OUT THE DOOR). Then we went to Bellevue Square (were mostly disappointed) and then trekked to Southcenter (much more successful) and then eventually home.
Someone in the neighborhood got pissed off enough about the fact that the power company hadn't done anything about the tree that they risked life and limb to cut down the tree and clear the road. They got a LOT of firewood out of the deal... except it's not seasoned. Harder to burn. But still.
Tonight when I came home, the power had slowly creeped farther up the mountain. For those of you familiar with the area, the power ended RIGHT at the Lake McDonald clubhouse. It's so close that I want to cry out of frustration. Maybe, just maybe by tomorrow evening.... but we're quickly approaching the week mark.
From the PSE website:
The scope and severity of damage to Puget Sound Energy's electric system from Friday's windstorm is unprecedented. In many hard-hit areas, our crews are having to re-build the system from the substation to customers' doors - after downed trees and debris are cleared away. Crews now have successfully repaired the core backbone of the system - our high-voltage transmission grid - and as of midmorning Monday, they'd restored power to more than 525,000 of the 700,000 customers who lost power.
We're continuing to repair other portions of our transmission and distribution systems, with more than 400 crews, representing over 2,000 workers, involved in the restoration effort. Besides our local crews, PSE has enlisted nearly 170 additional crews from across the western United States and Canada to help restore customers' power, and two dozen more crews are arriving later today from Missouri. Because the storm's damage is so widespread, however, we believe it will take most of this week to restore power to everyone in the hardest-hit areas.
Can't tell which one we'd fall under:
Bellevue and Newcastle areas
Restoration efforts in heavily damaged pockets of Bellevue, especially the Northrup, Lake Hills, Eastgate, Phantom Lake, and Newcastle areas likely will continue late into the week, perhaps Friday or Saturday. Crews are focused on repairing damage to the local distribution lines that serve customers.
Issaquah / Hobart area
Power has been restored to all five substations serving the Issaquah/Hobart community. Numerous pockets of outages, however, will still exist until later in the week, perhaps Thursday or Friday. For neighborhoods served by the now energized substations, we are working to repair the local distribution lines to restore customers' power as quickly as we can.