More than 7,000 Kent customers of Puget Sound Energy remained without power Monday morning.
PSE crews continue to work around the clock to restore electric service to the remaining customers who lost power following last week’s series of snow, freezing rain and windy weather, according to a PSE media release. Approximately 87 percent of PSE’s customer are now back on line.
As of 6 a.m., approximately 53,000 customers are without power, primarily in Thurston, Pierce and King counties.
Cities with the most customers without power included Olympia (7,791), Kent (7,118), Auburn (5,502) and Federal Way (3262).
Since early Wednesday, PSE crews have restored power to more than 360,000 customers in Western Washington. Kent had more than 25,000 customers without power going into the weekend.
Over the weekend, crews restored power to 146,000 customers. Restoration work has been completed in 15 areas where either entire communities or a portion of those communities were without power: Hobart, Bellevue, Bothell, Carnation/Tolt areas, Factoria area, Kenmore, Newport Hills/Newcastle, Redmond, Fairwood, Greenwater, Ravensdale, Renton area, Edgewood, Milton, Steamboat Island.
Now our work is more time-consuming as crews go from neighborhood to neighborhood where electric service will get restored in much smaller numbers, such as to five, 10 or 20 customers at a time.
Since the storm began, PSE has now repaired and re-energized 53 transmission lines, 70 substations and 326 distribution circuits that lost power during the series of snow, ice and wind storms.
Crews have been and will continue to work around the clock until every customer is restored.
There are approximately 280 power line crews in the region, to repair damages to the electric system and bring power back on. Counting the crews, crew coordinators, damage assessors and support staff, nearly 2,000 people are assisting the restoration effort.
Customers without power can access estimated restoration times on PSE.com Service Alert page, via Facebook, or by calling PSE at 1-888-225-5773. Given the magnitude of the damage caused by this week’s storms, PSE predicts small pockets of customers in some areas will remain out of power through mid-next week.
Jan 23 PSE Restoration Update:
South King County Area
Algona-Pacific, Monday, January 23, midday
Auburn area, Lake Wilderness late evening, Tuesday, January 24, late evening
Black Diamond area, late evening, Monday, January 23, late evening
Des Moines area, early evening, Wednesday, January 25, early evening
East Kent area, later evening, Wednesday, January 25, late evening
Enumclaw area, Wednesday, January 25, midday
Fairwood, COMPLETE
Federal Way area, Wednesday, January 25, late evening
Kent area, Monday, January 23, late evening
Maple Valley, including Four Corners area, Tuesday, January 24, late evening
Normandy Park area, Tuesday, January 24 , early evening
Ravensdale area, COMPLETE
Renton area, COMPLETE
Sea Tac area, Monday, January 23, late evening
Vashon, COMPLETE
Current outage data by city
City Customers without service
Olympia 7791
Rochester 439
North Bend 128
Covington 1327
Normandy Park 176
Fall City 127
Black Diamond 480
Burien 101
Pacific 491
Algona 109
South Prairie 140
Renton 2057
Sumner 184
Tukwila 80
Maple Valley 1558
Puyallup 2308
Lakewood 523
Kent 7118
Seatac 525
Federal Way 3262
Auburn 5502
Lacey 3270
Tenino 665
Kapowsin 29
Yelm 3589
Bonney Lake 987
Buckley 1284
Enumclaw 1702
Graham 1222
Lake Tapps 134
Rainier 714
Sammamish 242
Tumwater 1197
Edgewood 96
Des Moines 360
Bucoda 49
Eatonville 41
Issaquah 871
Roy 563
Orting 719
Centralia 73
Snoqualmie 153
Bremerton 39
Ellensburg 128
Dupont 25
Wilkeson 36
Carnation 35
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