Overnight power outage hits 2,600

November 6th, 2009 · 7 Comments

A lightning strike shortly before midnight took out power to about 2,600 customers in our area, according to Seattle City Light.

The outage stretched from North 70th Street on the south to North 123rd Street on the north and Corliss Avenue on the east to 8th Avenue NW on the west.

Our power was out for about two hours. How about you?

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7 responses so far ↓

1 Womble // Nov 6, 2009 at 8:10 am

No power outage where we live (near Sandel Park) but that was one crazy thunderstorm. It passed directly overhead violently shaking our house with the first couple of thunderclaps!. Scary stuff
2 Matt // Nov 6, 2009 at 9:35 am

We didn’t lose power (3rd & 89th) but did lose Internet connectivity. And yes, that thunderstorm was insane. In the middle of it, we also got about 5 minutes of pea-sized hail. I scooped a handful of it off the back deck and had to take it in to show my wife.
3 Stephen // Nov 6, 2009 at 10:58 am

Yup, ours was out for two hours starting just before midnight. We’re 73nd and 1st NW. Oddly, those to the north of 74th had power.
4 SunTee // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:18 pm

That is probably the loudest thunder I have ever heard and the lightning flashes were intense. We live near 88th and 6th Ave. NW and didn’t lose power. I did hear the hail pounding on the roof. Luckily my daughter slept through the whole thing.
5 Brian // Nov 6, 2009 at 3:19 pm

I have power and DSL, but no telephone. Go figure. Not sure when it went out.
6 Jon // Nov 6, 2009 at 5:37 pm

Yeah, that was probably the most intense thunderstorm I’ve ever seen in my life. We kept power, but it seemed like the lightning was touching down right nest to the house.

This hail is getting really old, though. Nothing as bad as the golf ball hail from back East, but still annoying.

Can’t wait to find my car with a bunch of welts…
7 Mike Perry // Nov 6, 2009 at 6:24 pm

The thunder was loud enough to wake me from a light sleep. At times it rumbled on for several seconds as the sound echoed off various hills. Interesting.

Imagine this thunder coming every second or two for half-an-hour or longer and you’ll get an idea what a routine thunderstorm in places like Florida is like.