More than 7,000 Kent customers of PSE still without power Monday

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