Power Outage in Friday Harbor, WA

During the morning and early afternoon hours, strong winds plagued the San Juan Islands, with Mesonet DW7371 reporting a wind gust of 60 mph on Lopez Island. Mesonet DW5375 on Decatur Island reported a wind gust of 59 mph. Trees on power lines also caused power outages on Orcas Island.

Lopez Island had 41-43 mph sustained wind from 719 AM to 1009 AM. About 5000 customers lost power.

A Griffin Bay home was hit by three fallen trees. Thousands of residents of the San Juan Islands lost power. KFHR 36g58 mph 753 PM and Lopez Village gusting 58+ mph off and on 753 PM to 1003 PM including a gust of 72 mph at 1003 PM.

Nearly 10,000 people lost power.

Four to 14 inches of snow fell. The heavy snow downed trees and power lines and caused travel problems.

A deep low passed well to the north, bringing high wind to the northwest interior and coast. The high wind extended south into the Seattle region. The wind was not as strong in the Seattle area as it was on December 14--only 30,000 Seattle City Light customers were without power at the storm's peak. However, it was the strongest storm of the season so far in the northwest interior, where power outages were widespread, and some of the outages lasted nearly a week.

A strong Pacific weather system moved through Western Washington and produced wind gusts up to 70 mph in many parts of the region. The strong winds blew down some trees, knocked power out to as many as 200,000 through the area, delayed or cancelled ferry service, and produced heavy rain amounts that produced some local urban flooding. The peak of the wind event occurred between 2 and 7 PM, adversely impacting the afternoon and evening commute. A tree fell on a vehicle in Renton, killing the 32-year old female driver and seriously injured a passenger. Another tree fell onto a mobile home in Port Orchard, seriously injuring a 15-year old girl. Power restoration cost just over $7 million.

About 250,000 people lost power. A 42 year old man died when his car was hit by a tree in Seattle's Seward Park. Several homes were damaged. Scaffolding at the UW was reduced to a pile of rubble by the winds. The Hwy 520 bridge and Hood Canal Bridge were closed for several hours, as was parts of I-405. There was minor damage to the 520 bridge draw span. A semi truck was toppled on the Tacoma Narrows bridge, halting traffic. Downed trees blocked two lanes of southbound 405 in Snohomish County. Washington State Ferries canceled or delayed several routes.

High wind occurred for several hours on the coast and over the north interior. Power out to about 50000 customers. Hood Canal bridge closed for 2 hours. Ferry service suspended. A 75 year old fishing boat was destroy when it broke free from its moorage and was pounded against some rocks.

Nearly 50000 people lost power.||A woman was transported with serious injuries and a family of five is displaced this afternoon after a large tree slammed into their home on Norland Court, near North Kitsap High School. ||Medics treated the woman, and then transported her to Harrison Hospital in Bremerton. Poulsbo firefighters remained on scene to secure the power, water, and gas. The home is uninhabitable and the family is displaced at this time.

High wind struck parts of Western Washington beginning around mid morning on Saturday August 29th and continued into the afternoon hours. Widespread tree damage and power outages occurred, about 450,000 in total. Storm force winds developed over the coastal waters and Northern Inland waters. Solid Gale force winds occurred on the remaining waters. Ferry service between Port Townsend and Coupeville was suspended because of the windstorm.||A tree feel on an automobile in Gig Harbor resulting in 1 death. At least 23 car collisions reported around Puget Sound by news media, possibly weather related. Highway 99 closed for a few hours through downtown Seattle was weather-related according to media and Seattle Police. Numerous reports of trees or branches on roadways. Widespread power outages. Power outages examples: 161,000 Puget Sound Energy and 58,000 Seattle City light customers. ||A 10-year-old girl was killed in SeaTac when a falling tree branch hit and killed her. |Two elderly people died in their home near Everson after inhaling a generator���s exhaust fumes during the weekend power outage.

A deep low moved north along the Washington coast but weakened with time. The strongest winds occurred inland from about Tacoma north. A Seattle Times article said there were 246,000 power customers affected, which would make this the highest impact storm of the season by a small margin.||Here is a Seattle Times article:||Vashon Highway Southwest between Southwest 112th Street and 116th Street is closed because of downed power lines.||The storm impacted nearly 246,000 customers. ||Redmond police said 160th Avenue Northeast, between Northeast 83rd and Northeast 85th, remained closed Friday morning after scaffolding outside an apartment building under construction fell Thursday night.||The Point Defiance/Tahlequah ferry route is out of service until further notice because of storm damage to the Tahlequah terminal, according to Washington State Ferries. The alternate route is the North Vashon terminal.||Update at 6 a.m.: Puget Sound Energy says about 53,000 customers are without power in the utility���s service area.||Meanwhile, several school districts are closing schools or starting late as a result of power outages and blocked roads. Check here for updates.||The tree that was blocking Highway 203 at 124th Street Northeast, south of Duvall, has been cleared.||Original post: Utility crews are making progress in restoring power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Western Washington that lost power during last night���s windstorm.||Puget Sound Energy reported about 66,000 customers were still without power as of 4:30 a.m. Friday, down from a peak of nearly 105,000 at 1 a.m. Seattle City Light said just under 2,500 were in the dark as of 4:30 a.m.||The Snohomish County Public Utility District reported about 26,000 customers were without power.||Some school districts are observing modified schedules as a result of the storm.||In the Northshore School District, Timbercrest Junior High and Bear Creek and East Ridge elementary schools are closed Friday due to road closures and power outages. All other district schools will open two hours later than normal.||In the Everett School District, Everett High and Emerson and Woodside elementaries will be closed.||South Whidbey School District is closed.||In the Bethel School District in Pierce County, Roy Elementary School will start two hours late. The Toledo School District in Lewis County is also starting school two hours late.||Several streets are blocked by trees or debris, including state Highway 9 a mile north of Finn Settlement Road north of Arlington. Also, Highway 203 at 124th Street Northeast, south of Duvall, is blocked by a tree.||Officials say a tree fell onto the casino���s 18,000-gallon propane tank and started a large fire roughly 30 feet from the casino.||Winds have gradually died down. Thursday night, the National Weather Service recorded gusts of 50 mph at Seattle���s Alki Beach, 61 mph on Camano Island and 69 mph at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

Strong Fraser River outflow was forecast and a high wind watch was issued for three northwest interior zones. This was changed to a wind advisory for two of the zones. In the event, those two zones, San Juans and western Whatcom, had some high wind, as did Hansville in the Hood Canal zone. Near-advisory level northerly winds were experienced over the whole Puget Sound area and there were around 25,000 power outages in the Seattle area.||Here is an article from the Seattle Times:||Puget Sound Energy currently has 15,004 customers without power around Puget Sound. Seattle City Light is reporting just over 9,000, mostly north of the city.||KOMO reported on Twitter that the Edmonds ferry is delayed because wind knocked out power to the dock and the ramp can���t be lowered.||A fallen tree at 27th Ave NW and NW 95th Street causing a power outage for about 60 Seattle City Light customers.||While the wind speeds are not unusual, Burke said, gusts are causing more damage today because they are blowing from the north.||More than 3,000 Seattle City Light customers are currently out of power north of Seattle, while Puget Sound Energy is seeing many small outages all round Seattle.||The wind caused a dock to break loose in Lake Washington from a property on Rainier Avenue South about 11 a.m., threatening to hit a neighbor���s boat. The Seattle Fire Department secured the dock before any more damage was done.||An outage in Redmond has 1,079 PSE customers in the dark. Power in Lake Forest Park has been restored, but Seattle City Light is now responding to an outage in Olympic Hills that is affecting 2,853 customers.|||Whatcom and Skagit counties are seeing the brunt of it ��� wind gusts Friday night were up to 67 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

A deep but filling low moved northeast across central Vancouver Island. The KPDX-KBLI gradient reached about +10 with the KOLM-KBLI portion about 2/3 of that. There was brief high wind in several zones. |At the storm���s peak, more than 14,000 Puget Sound Energy customers were without electricity, with the worst outages in Whatcom, Skagit and Island counties. On Thursday evening, more than 3,000 Seattle City Light customers were without power, most from an outage in Shoreline caused by a downed tree.||From a Seattle Times article:||A storm with high winds Thursday caused power outages across the Puget Sound region and downed power lines and trees, including one that injured a semitruck driver in Snohomish County and another that trapped a man in North Seattle. |Gusts of more than 40 mph were reported in the Seattle area, with a peak of 44 mph recorded about three miles west of Des Moines, according to the National Weather Service. |The strongest winds were recorded in the northern interior and North Coast from a ���pretty vigorous system��� that came in from the Pacific Ocean, meteorologist Johnny Burg said. The weather service issued a high-wind warning for the area. Destruction Island, off the North Coast, reported gusts of 63 mph, while Paine Field in Everett had a peak of 51 mph and a sustained wind of 39 mph. |A tree fell on a semi on Highway 530 near Oso on Thursday afternoon and trapped the driver inside, according to the State Patrol. The man was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center with critical injuries. Highway 530 just west of 310th Street Northeast was blocked in both directions for about an hour before it opened to alternating traffic around 5 p.m. ||Firefighters in Seattle���s Bitter Lake neighborhood rescued a man trapped by a downed tree there. The man was taken to Harborview in stable condition with no visible injuries, according to the Seattle Fire Department. ||Fallen trees were reported from Bellevue to Bainbridge Island to Sedro-Woolley and were responsible for many of the Seattle City Light and Puget Sound Energy outages throughout the day. ||At the storm���s peak, more than 14,000 Puget Sound Energy customers were without electricity, with the worst outages in Whatcom, Skagit and Island counties. On Thursday evening, more than 3,000 Seattle City Light customers were without power, most from an outage in Shoreline caused by a downed tree. ||Washington State Ferries canceled two afternoon runs between Port Townsend and Coupeville because of high winds.

Strong winds hit Western Washington knocking out power to about 10,000 customers. A tree fell on a house in west Queen Anne. There were several reports of high wind.

Deep low pressure moved from the eastern Pacific northeast into northern Vancouver Island, creating strong pressure differences and strong damaging southerly winds across much of western Washington. The wind blew down trees and knocked power to nearly 240,000 customers at the height of the storm, including about 180,000 in the Puget Sound region.

On Dec 11th, winds gusting to 83 mph on the coast and 70 mph in the interior knocked out power to about 20,000 customers.|On Dec 13th, winds gusting to 47 mph knocked out power to about 50,000 customers. Trees fell on a few homes, vehicles and buses.

A pair of strong wind storms struck western Washington on the night of Nov 12th and early on the 13th, and again on the night of Nov 14th through the 15th. Each storm brought strong damaging winds to the area as the parent low pressure systems tracked from off the south coast northeast into southern British Columbia.|The Nov 12-13 storm brought sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts near 60 mph along the coast. Winds of 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph were observed in the north interior from Whidbey Island northward and in parts of the southwest interior of Washington. |The Nov 14-15 storm was the stronger of the two events. Winds of 40-60 mph with gusts up to 80 mph occurred along the Washington coast. In the north interior, from the northern Kitsap Peninsula northward, sustained winds of 35 to 50 mph with gusts to around 65 mph were reported. In the southwest Washington interior, sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts to 60 mph were reported. What was unique with this event is that winds capable of producing damage persisted for 6 to 12 hours. This duration is much longer than normal for most damaging wind events. The strongest reported wind gust was 95 mph atop Ellis Mountain 13 miles north of Forks. |Hundreds of trees were blown down and power was knocked out for about 150,000 people, primarily in the second wind event.

A 968 mb low produced high winds over much of Western Washington. About 260,000 homes and businesses lost power. For the first time in 7 years, the Evergreen floating bridge was closed, the Hood Canal bridge was also closed. Ferry service was also halted. Many roofs were damaged, some blew off, and others were smashed by fallen trees. The Woodland Park Zoo, in Seattle, was closed because of concern that falling trees could damage fences, possibly releasing animals. A man in Tumwater was injured when a tree fell on his house and shards of ceiling tile struck his head.

Heavy snow fell over parts of the north interior. East Sound, Anacortes and Forks all received about 4 inches, and Sequim got 5 to 7 inches. Most businesses closed early and about 9000 homes lost power. Tow trucks were very busy.

High winds caused scattered power outages in the San Juan islands and the islands off western Whatcom county.

High winds cut power to about 50,000 homes and businesses. Dozens of trees downed, one hit a mobile home and another crushed 4 cars. A man was killed as he tried to stomp out a fire caused by a downed power line. In Conway, a 95 year old barn was blown over.

Two frontal systems brought very windy conditions to western Washington for nearly 24 hours. Strongest winds were along the coast and in the north interior. Trees fell on nearly a dozen houses or mobile homes, and in one instance, killed a person. One industrial building had its roof blown off. There were power outages to about 100,000 homes and businesses, as well as blocked roads from fallen trees or utility lines.

High winds over the coast, Kitsap peninsula and northward from Everett downed trees and disrupted power to about 55,000 homes. In the Arlington area, school was cancelled and a tree fell on a fire engine, damaging it. In Everett, a tree fell on a mobile home.

There were some power outages with this storm, mainly in the San Juan Islands. There was also some damage to boats and businesses in the area.

High winds downed trees and knocked out power to about 7000 homes.

Strong winds blew over most of Western Washington, knocking out power to about 40,000 customers. There were several reports of houses damaged by fallen trees as well as trees down over roadways.

A strong pressure gradient developed over NW Washington for several days. Sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts to 60 effected parts of Western Washington at times during the 15th and 16th. Keystone ferry service was suspended at times and power was knocked out over parts of Skagit and Island counties. One man died when a tree fell on his car while he was driving in Skagit County.

Reported winds gusting to 65 mph started along the coast during the afternoon, and moved inland during the night. There were several roofs damaged or blown off in the Ocean Shores area, as well as in other parts of western WA. About 125,000 customers lost power and there about a dozen reports of trees falling on houses. All of Whidbey Island lost power. Ferry service in the north sound was disrupted.

Sustained winds of 40 to 45 mph blew through most of western Washington knocking out power to 300,000 homes. One man was killed as a tree was blown onto his pickup truck. Ferry service was distrupted and the 520 bridge across Lake Washington was closed for nearly 12 hours. There were dozens of trees downed, some of which fell on homes.

High winds toppled a tree onto a pickup truck, killing the driver. The high winds also knocked out power to about 4000 homes and distrupted skiing at Crystal Mountain. 16 of 20 ferry runs between Port Townsend and Keystone were cancelled.