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My home as at the corner of NE 23rd Street and Harrington Place NE, which gave me both a power outage and a front-row seat to the power restoration during the last 24 hours. We were one of the estimated 100,000 PSE customers without power at the end of last night’s storm.
A large seemingly-dead cedar tree fell across NE 23rd street, snapping the high-voltage power lines and yanking a utility pole out of alignment. My daughter-in-law who lives in a home nearby and was still awake at 2:00 AM heard the crash and saw the sparks on the street as the wires grounded and shorted out. Thankfully no one appeared to have been injured.
I’ve been told Renton Firefighters arrived quickly and inspected the area, ensuring no one was underneath the tree and that there was no lingering fire danger. They closed the road with tape, and city road crews followed up with additional signage.
Early this afternoon Puget Sound Energy workers and a tree service arrived in force, and removed the tree and restored the wires in about two hours of work. We and 56 other households were of course all happy to get power restored. Residents along NE 23rd street were also happy to have the intimidating wires picked up so they could get out of their driveways.
Here are some photos from the restoration:
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