A power outage affecting apartment and commercial buildings along Broadway near Seattle Central and in parts of Pike/Pine have left about 300 customers without power this morning, City Light says.
Reports indicate the outage is a “single phase” failure meaning only parts of buildings — down to individual circuits and outlets — are without power.
“Things powered by the 1 down phase (out of 3) won’t work while everything else does. It’s like 1/3 of your breakers are off,” @Cory98112 tells us via Twitter.
City Light says a crew is out looking for a cause of the underground failure. Current restoration time is listed as around 10:30a but more will be known when the problem is identified.
Thanksgiving week, nearly 5,000 customers were without power after an underground cable failure caused a brief but widespread outage across Capitol Hill, the Central District and First Hill.
You can see the latest City Light system status at http://seattle.gov/light/sysstat/
Gotta love our aging infrastructure.
And thanks, Justin et. al., for keeping us informed. When something happens on the hill this the first place I and my friends turn.
I was quite confused this morning when some appliances were without power didn’t work and flipping the circuit breakers didn’t fix anything. The fridge was on, but not the microwave. The electric stove heated my breakfast, but the time display was off. Realized it wasn’t just me when I stepped out of the apartment and realized the whole building was had a power problem.
I was working from home at 10:36 and the power went OFF. I had apparently been one of the lucky ones before that where the power was not out, but I ended up having to shower by candlelight with lukewarm water and go into the office. The power was still out when I left at 11.