7:20 PM: Power’s out in the West Seattle Junction again – same area, same number of customers as Friday’s outage, 491. That one was blamed on “bird/animal” – no word on this one yet, though one texter says it’s the “same pole.”
9:09 PM: This one too is attributed to that same type of cause.
12:25 AM: Power’s back.
Last 2 nights I had to order out.. wtf am I paying for? This is not right!! This happen last year I’m done!!
This is really unacceptable. I feel for all the businesses in the Junction that have lost yet another night of patronage. Come on City Light, get it together!
Trader Joe’s power isn’t out tonight. 😅. This is just a thing I do now I guess.
The SCL site says it was due to a “bird_animal” again. How is that possible? Estimated restoration time is 12:33 a.m. Sunday, although as WSB noted yesterday, this means little.
Bird lands on line in just the right spot …wrong spot, really. I will be following up on these for a more detailed explanation but won’t be able to reach my contact until Monday.
Wow, just like yesterday, my backup battery/power/surge protector went pop and turned off my computer. Same as yesterday.It was later in the day and I thought it must be something with the battery pack. I’m actually happy it was a power outage, whatever caused it—sorry :-(I hope the power came back on quickly. My power never went out (nor Friday).
I saw the bird falling this time. It’s sad and this happens way too often. Sure wish there were a solution.
POWER IS BACK ON FINALLY. So happy it’ll be here until possibly, maybe tomorrow. Don’t hold your breath.
The junction has food, and plenty. Its been a rough year and a half… foodies we got ya!
Engineer here (not at City Light). Animals can and do cause outages. But that does not explain a repeated failure. Maybe aging equipment? Some utilities rehab and re-use their transformers for decades. I’ve heard of entire counties lose power because of a raccoon crawling into a substation. Also I remember when half of downtown lost power for a day a few years back. Turned out to be a maintenance error.
Your absolutely correct. Utilities Animal Deterrent Contractor here, I have been trying to reach City Light to discuss our patented and proven animal deterrent fencing both perimeter and interior models for substation and equipment protection. While I cannot protect equipment from birds, I can from snakes, raccoons, opossums, squirrels, etc. If anyone has a contact at City Light I would very much like to present solutions to them. Nate Woollensnwoollens@vanquishfencing.com
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