Archives for October 27, 2010

Continuing power outage in Wedgwood (restored)

UPDATE (8:45 am): We have confirmation from a Wedgwood Power Outage sibling that some power was restored around 11:30pm that night.

UPDATE (6:41 am): Looks as though power has been restored to customers throughout the affected area at some point after after my last update (Seattle City Light System Status page now shows zero outages).

UPDATE (12:40 am): Power has been partially restored to the affected area. Seattle City Light System Status page now showing only 2 outages affecting 241 customers.

At approximately 2:30 pm on Wednesday afternoon, a Ravenna Blog twitter feed follower up in the Wedgwood/Matthews Beach/Meadowbrook area had her lights flicker and die, only to come on about a half an hour later.

But some of her neighbors were not so lucky.

Nearly 400 customers are still without power in an area of Wedgwood bordered by 30th Avenue NE, NE 90th St, 45th Ave NE and NE 82nd St (information from Seattle City Light’s System Status page; see the graphic below for greater detail).

Power-outage affected area as of 11:20 pm on Wednesday, October 27

Specially tagged areas of the map at the source give an estimated number of affected customers, an estimated power restoration time, and a cause (though not specific). This Seattle City Light’s System Status page is updated every 15 minutes.

For this current outage, two of the three tags have lapsed restoration times listed.  All three have “Equip fail” listed as causes.

Another way to access outage information (and to report an outage) is to call Seattle City Light at (206) 684-7400.  However, you need a phone number within the affected area to hear or report outage information for that area.

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Unfortunately, that is all the information on this outage that I can find at this time. I’m left to publish an update in the morning.

If you lived HERE, you’d be home by now

Thanks to our footage of the President rolling through our neighborhood, and the kind local news outlets that shared said footage, there have been a lot more eyeballs visiting the ol’ Ravenna Blog lately.  And I’m sure not all those eyeballs belong to Ravenna residents…

…but more of them could.

THIS could be your living room.

Ravenna/Bryant resident Sarah would love to help you, in this regard. She’s renting a house in the neighborhood (and/or the downstairs apartment in the house).

Sarah puts the place in a nutshell for you right here:

I feel like this house defines Ravenna:  it’s a Crafstman Bungalow, it’s on Ravenna Park’s ravine, and you can stumble to coffee, yoga, and 11 decent restaurants.  This is the real deal.

If you’re interested, or know someone who might be, there are more pictures and information in the craigslist posting right here.

[Apparently, your cats will need references, should you want this place for your very own. Sarah is quite the stickler when it comes to references.]

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This post is also another way of saying: Hey, neighbors! I could do a bit of a Real Estate Round-Up every now and then, should it be something you’d be interested in. However, I would like to keep submissions limited to non-professional Realtors at this time.