(MORNING STORM COVERAGE IS HERE, including 2 power outages … ROAD HAZARD? Call 206-386-1218)
12:55 PM: We start our afternoon report with word of two tree-trouble spots:
*The Highland Park Way hill west of W. Marginal Way SW is reported to be closed in both directions because of a downed tree.
*A tree is also reported down at Olson and Myers. Traffic effects unknown; we’re off to check.
1:10 PM: SDOT reports Highland Park Way is open again.
1:32 PM: Just checked out the Myers/Olson situation. Southbound Myers is blocked off at Olson – you can’t turn onto it (photo above shows the roped-off exit lane from eastbound Olson); crews are on the road. Also of note, DEEP water across SW Roxbury at the easternmost entrance to Safeway. Lots of puddling on roads everywhere you go – we’ve been talking mostly about the wind, but the rain has continued, and the ground already was saturated from the recent 4-inches-in-3-days storm.
2:07 PM: While you can use Myers northbound, you can’t turn onto westbound Olson – that’s taped off too.
2:27 PM: The National Weather Service says things should start to get better after another hour or so in the metro area.
2:48 PM: As Katelyn notes in comments, SFD is responding to downed wire(s) at Beach Drive and Canada.
The Seattle City Light map (screengrab above) shows a 79-customer outage nearby. Several people have told us they heard two “booms” just before the power went out. Today’s two other multiple-customer West Seattle outages (in our morning coverage) were resolved relatively quickly.
3:42 PM: That outage is now described as “equipment failure” which would seem to verify the transformer suspicion. Meantime, if you passed a crash scene at 16th/Barton, that wasn’t weather-related – we’re working on a separate story we’ll link here when done (update: it’s here). This next photo, however, does seem to be weather-related:
Keri says that’s near Holy Rosary School.
3:52 PM: Cil says in comments that Myers/Olson is back to normal. (Thanks to everyone for updates as well as initial reports – 206-293-6302 is our text/voice hotline 24/7.)
4:22 PM: On Puget Ridge, Andy says this tree is hanging precariously low over SW Brandon:
@westseattleblog partially down tree on Brandon between 17th and 18th SW. pic.twitter.com/rWM7XGFafE
— Andy DeBroux (@brouxhaha) November 18, 2015
6:36 PM: Thanks for the updates. The weather has calmed, as forecast, but still some trouble out there. Our site was down for a while but that was not weather-related – it’s hosted out of the city especially so that it will be safe in case of catastrophe here; the server company just happened to have a massive problem that affected many sites including ours. Meantime, word of more trees toppling at day’s end – one blocking part of Orchard near Delridge, and this one on Webster by the Solstice Park P-Patch (east of Fauntleroy Way):
We’ll likely start a storm-aftermath report in a bit so please keep the updates coming – editor@wsb.blackfin.biz – thank you!
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