Shortly before 1:00 PM this afternoon, sections of seven Northeast Seattle neighborhoods lost power. At peak, approximately 3,800 customers were affected.
Screen capture of the outage at its peak taken from Seattle City Light’s System Status webpage.
Parts of Roosevelt, Ravenna, Bryant, Wedgwood, View Ridge, and Sand Point all took a hit along NE 65th St, while nearly all of Windermere went down. The estimated time of restoration was listed at 3 PM, but many customers are seeing their lights coming back on ahead of that time.
Last week’s outage was blamed on a tree (and the high winds helped, we imagine). But what’s to blame this time?
NE Seattle outage down to 1600 homes, businesses. Crow on a switch believed to be the cause. Crews checking equipment.
— Seattle City Light (@SEACityLight) July 10, 2012
A crow. Nature is out to get us, apparently.
Wait…
http://bit.ly/MhbLYL or http://bit.ly/L7jOr7????
Most likely the former. More conductive.
But the latter could fly…
The crows have been noisy and busy on our block. Tons of juveniles. They have been worrying the chickens daily with their play in the yard. They wake us up. Why not take out the power. The mighty CROWS!