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Windy October night leaves 3,000 without power around Capitol Hill

"Wind storm knocks over tree on Capitol Hill Cal Anderson Park, Man stripped bare and climbs." (Image: @timdurkan via Twitter)

“Wind storm knocks over tree on Capitol Hill Cal Anderson Park, Man stripped bare and climbs.” (Image: @timdurkan via Twitter)

B01-Se4IcAAjBVjAn October windstorm knocked out power to around 3,000 customers in a northern swath of Capitol Hill near Volunteer Park Saturday night.

The outages were part of a series of service disruptions around the city leaving more than 20,000 without power.

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The largest outage surrounding the park was reportedly caused by a downed branch or tree. A smaller outage knocking about 600 out had a reported restoration time of after 11 PM. City Light estimated a midnight or later restoration for the larger outage.

The outages followed an increase in the night’s gusts around 8 PM. Winds on the 520 bridge measured above 60 MPH.

Around 8:04 PM, wires were reported down on 20th Ave E.

You can view City Light’s status page here. UPDATE: As of 9:50 PM, citywide outages have left more than 50,000 without power around Seattle. UPDATE x2: Some areas around Volunteer Park were restored to service around 10:45 PM.

The National Weather Service says winds could continue through 2 AM:1920393_801976873196054_3007751333398633932_n

UPDATE: Careful out there — lots of branches (and trees!) on the ground:

UPDATE 10/27/2014 9:45 AM: Seattle Parks tells us there isn’t a longterm prognosis for the big Cal Anderson maple that lost a massive branch during the weekend storm. The tree, which provides a big landmark and some much needed summer shade in the southwest corner of Bobby Morris field, remains mostly intact. The fallen section will be removed by a work crew during the day Monday. A fence in the area was also damaged.

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adam
adam
9 years ago

The power was out in the E Madison Safeway, it went out while I was inside. They have a generator, and people could check out, but power inside was limited.

manicpopthrills
manicpopthrills
9 years ago

I can vouch for power coming back in North Capitol Hill at 10:45-ish, 10th near Boston area.

fluffy
9 years ago

Wellp, this explains the brief power flickers I experienced around 8:15 (three-ish blocks from Cal Anderson).

Timmy73
Timmy73
9 years ago

The hill is really messy this morning. Lots of limbs down and unsecured items blown around. Exercise caution when walking/biking/driving today.

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