Windstorm Knocks Out Power to More Than 115,000 Customers in Western Washington on November 7; About 78,000 Still Out on Sunday Morning
A powerful windstorm knocked out power to more than 115,000 customers across western Washington on Saturday night, November 7, including about 46,000 Seattle City Light customers at the peak, according to PowerOutage.com figures reported by multiple outlets. Close to 78,000 customers statewide were still without power on Sunday morning as repair work continued.
Local station KING 5 counted approximately 100,000 customers without power across five electricity providers by 10:34 p.m. on November 7: Seattle City Light, Puget Sound Energy, Peninsula Light, Clallam Public Utility District and Snohomish Public Utility District. Puget Sound Energy was handling outages at more than 220 sites affecting 27,000 to 30,000 customers across King, Pierce, Thurston, Skagit and Whatcom counties. Snohomish County PUD documented over 12,000 outages around Marysville and Lake Stevens, and Peninsula Light reported approximately 6,000 darkened accounts across Gig Harbor and the Key Peninsula.
The National Weather Service recorded a peak gust of 69 mph at Hoquiam on the coast and about 50 mph around Puget Sound, with 46 mph measured at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; mountain stations recorded higher gusts. The Weather Service had issued a wind advisory covering much of the Puget Sound region from 6 p.m. Saturday until 4 a.m. Sunday, with south winds of 15 to 25 mph and gusts reaching 45 mph expected in Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Bellevue, Bellingham and surrounding communities.
Seattle City Light recorded 143 separate outages across its service area, and the largest single outage cut power to 4,884 customers in Burien. Fallen trees blocked roads in several locations. No deaths or injuries were reported in connection with the storm. Forecasters expected showers to linger into the coming week, with another weather system due on Monday, November 9.
Source: NewsNation Online summary of November 8, 2026, citing PowerOutage.com, Seattle City Light, Puget Sound Energy, KING 5 and the National Weather Service.
来源链接： https://newsnationonline.com/usa/power-outage-seattle-what-to-do/
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Source: NWS Seattle and Puget Sound Energy
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Photo: 风暴过后倒伏的树木（资料图）。（Wikimedia Commons）|A tree downed by a storm (file photo). (Wikimedia Commons)
