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Windy conditions caused power outages Thursday afternoon across the Puget Sound region, with nearly 20,000 customers without power.

Windy conditions caused power outages Thursday afternoon across the Puget Sound region, with nearly 20,000 customers without power in King and Snohomish counties at one point in the day.

As of 4:13 p.m., South Seattle was being hit the hardest with about 10,000 homes and businesses without power. Many neighborhoods are not expected to have electricity again until late afternoon or early evening.There was a big outage in the Echo Lake area, and also some spots in Edmonds and Lynnwood in south Snohomish County.

Some current snow plow names from previous contest winners include Plowie McPlow Plow, The Big Leplowski, Sir Plows-A-Lot and Betty Whiteout.The city is instituting a new policy limiting the Seattle Police Department's ability to use ruses in their work, citing recent instances where the public's trust was underminedSeattle officials are once again debating whether to install gunshot detection technology in the city, which is designed to alert police to gunfire.

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