UPDATE: West Seattle power outage affects nearly 5,000; Now down to 146

Update 7:00 a.m

Power is back on for most of those affected, except for a group of 146 customers north of Me Kwa Mooks Park along Beach Drive SW from SW Orleans Street north to about SW Oregon Street. Power is expected to be back on at 3 p.m.

Update 9:07 p.m

Partial power has mostly been restored south of the original cause of the outage, with service restored to 1,600 customers. Tonight the restoration of the City Light projects will be carried out.

A reader shared: “The power outage started at my house when a tree fell down the hill and knocked out the power lines next to my house and part of my car. The cause was not the transformer, but the tree that fell at my house and took out the power up here and then went down to the beach and destroyed the transformer. Because when the lights went out in our house, the lights were still on on Beach Drive.

Original post 8:17 p.m

Shortly after 8 p.m., 4,910 City Light customers in West Seattle experienced a power outage. Recovery was not expected before 2 a.m.

The outage affected a wide area including Alki Point, Beach Drive and up to SW Holly Street. It lay primarily west of 49th SW.

The cause was a faulty transformer in the 4100 block of Beach Drive SW. You can check the status of the outage on the City Light system status page here

https://seattle.gov/city-light/outages