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[Smokerbill]

You didn't lose power yesterday? Ours was out from 4pm to about 10pm.

Nope, but all of the town of Winlock was blacked out, all the way over to the interstate. Had a hard time finding an open store.

 

[ValerieJ]

Nope, but all of the town of Winlock was blacked out, all the way over to the interstate. Had a hard time finding an open store.

It was out from there all the way out here. One big outage. I think about 1600 customers. bunch of trees down

 

[Smokerbill]

This was today's outage.

 

[Hinotori]

We're in that sort of rectangular blob at the bottom above the 8.

We at least have a crew assigned.

Orting citizens Facebook groups had a rumor that a transmission line is down and why the city is dark.

This looks much better than it did this morning

 

[TeePants]

This was today's outage.
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Hey! I bike through here on the STP. I’m sorry you lost power, but your area is gorgeous. We live in Seattle now but I’m from rural Louisiana. It’s nice that we don’t have to drive to far to get back out into the country.

Our power flickered here in West Seattle but we didn’t lose it - but a lot of other folks did. A tree fell on the highway and blocked two lanes too. It was crazy!

I am lucky we put the weights on our 10x10 canopy we put out next to the coop so we could keep working in the rain. Although, now that I know we have another 100sqft, I’m wondering if we might add some marans to our silkies next spring and expand a bit.

 

[ValerieJ]

This was today's outage.
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Yesterday's was over 6,000 over all, out of a total of 36,000 LCPUD customers. I was just saying there were 1,600 customers effected in our local outage. I think that may have been everyone in the greater Toledo area. Afterall, there are less than 700 people in the town proper -- count that as people, not customers. I think they consider each account a customer, not the amount of people living there.

 

[ValerieJ]

Hey! I bike through here on the STP. I’m sorry you lost power, but your area is gorgeous. We live in Seattle now but I’m from rural Louisiana. It’s nice that we don’t have to drive to far to get back out into the country.

Our power flickered here in West Seattle but we didn’t lose it - but a lot of other folks did. A tree fell on the highway and blocked two lanes too. It was crazy!

I am lucky we put the weights on our 10x10 canopy we put out next to the coop so we could keep working in the rain. Although, now that I know we have another 100sqft, I’m wondering if we might add some marans to our silkies next spring and expand a bit.

It always seems to be the trees. We had a large one fall near the freeway that knocked us all out, but there were so many other trees. I've been hearing all the stories. At least one person killed by a downed tree and a few others injured in that one. One delivery person had a tree fall right behind her after she passed it on the road.

I'm just relieved there were no trees down in our immediate area. Well, one small one in the road on our way out this morning. More like a big branch. We could drive around it.

I do think our PUD is great at getting us back up and running.

 

[rosemarythyme]

We had flickering throughout the night but got lucky, no power loss and relatively few branches down. Area across the street showed up as a big red blob on the outage map and we could hear generators in the distance. There was a tree diagonally leaning over a roadway on the way to lunch but by the time we came back it was blocked off awaiting removal, so hopefully neighboring areas get their power back soon.

 

[Hinotori]

Cant hear my generator if your more than 50 feet away. It's running on Eco because no huge draw. It being super quiet was one reason we wanted this one. That way it doesn't attract tweakers

 

[rosemarythyme]

Cant hear my generator if your more than 50 feet away. It's running on Eco because no huge draw. It being super quiet was one reason we wanted this one. That way it doesn't attract tweakers

Everyone around here has loud ones. Walking around during the power outage you can hear them all rumbling away.