A deadly bomb cyclone battered western Washington lowlands this week with strong, gusty winds and rain, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands.
Crews with Puget Sound Energy work to restore power after a bomb cyclone brought strong winds to western Washington, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands across the region. this week with strong, gusty winds and rain, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of residents across the region.
The storm that reached the Puget Sound area on Tuesday night knocked out power to over 650,000 customers during the peak of the outages. More than 264,000 residents were still without power Thursday afternoon. Most of the remaining outages Thursday were Puget Sound Energy customers.Power was anticipated to be restored to PSE customers in Whatcom, Skagit, Island and Kitsap counties by 6 p.m. Friday. The company expected customers in Pierce and Thurston counties to have power restored by 11:59 p.
“The high winds and resulting tree damage not only downed the smaller, local power lines, but also damaged the larger transmission lines – the larger lines that bring power into communities,” PSE said. At least two people were killed in this week’s storm. A woman in Bellevue was hit and killed by a tree while she was taking a shower Tuesday night, and another woman died when a large tree fell on a homeless encampment off of Alderwood Mall Parkway in Lynnwood.
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