UPDATE:
Seattle City Light spokesperson Mike Eagan said this outage is limited to only 40 customers in Sara’s building. Cause is failure at a ‘terminal pole’ near the building which is a transition point between underground and overhead transit wires. Eagan said service should be restored by 1:30 PM and, at this time, the service disruption does not seem related to this week’s massive outage which knocked out power to more than 3,000 customers in the area.

Original Report:
Just saw this mail from neighbor Sara reporting that the lights went out in I-5 Shores again early this morning. We’ll check around to find out what happened. There’s nothing about the service disruption on City Light’s announcement page.

Just wanted to inform you that power went out at abour 4:07 am on Bellevue near Roy again last night.  I live at 740 Bellevue Ave. E. across from the #14 bus stop and across from the Lookout.  There was a big pop sound like that of a champagne bottle being uncorked – release of pressure sound – and then power went out.  It was pretty loud and woke me up.  Maybe a transformer blew?  I lived my place at 8:30 am today and it seemed like lights were back on although they were very low power for some reason (like there was a back up generator but there’s not…).  Seemed like Mode at 752 Bellevue Ave. E. (next door) also didn’t have power.  I am guessing our block was out again.

I looked on CHS today to see if I could find out why the power had gone out again (after Wednesday’s outage!).  I didn’t see anything and so I thought I’d let you know about this in case you hear anything more and can share it with everyone on the blog.  Have a great day. Thanks for the continually great coverage!

Sara